craig berry dujnnhdcpumaccom 856 0600 111307 john e malmberg wrote one issue seems showing setting envfoo empty string apparently causing problems vms resulting logical name showing containing empty string showing containing one nonprinting characters issue since cant zerolength equivalence name zerolength env value stored null whether means zero byte zero longword cant remember without looking code thats implementation detail doesnt really matter perl heres easy see whats happening perl e envfooq perl e print ordenvfoo 0 perl e print lengthenvfoo 0 value environment variable zero length false truth value dont know ask perhaps could better document internals implementation stable long time dont see reason raise red flag final days release cycle ________________________________________ craig berry mailtodujnnhdcpumaccom getting sonnet much difficult getting brad leithauser thu 07 aug 2008 211403 0600 env issues vms