Problems with GATH/SEND

[M Kaufman]

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Subject: Problems with a "non-essential" command - GATH/SEND on system V
To: Anyone out there with a potential solution

Hi there! I've been able to make GATH/SEND remove environment variable
definitions under system V running on the 3b20. Has anyone been able to
do this on another machine? Do you have any idea how I can get around it,
since I don't want this to happen? What happens is that GATH/SEND decides
to "unset" a variable in the environment, choosing one at random - not
necessarily always the 1st, 10th, nth, etc. This is a major bug for those of
us developing source code on UNIX to run on Big Blue. Any ideas? It appears
one of the functions in the GATH/SEND source is the culprit (dupenv). The
support folks have told me that it is not an essential command and so I
shouldn't complain, but as it stands we cannot compile or run anything.
I wonder how GATH/SEND can be classified as "non-essential." It sure as
hell is essential to me!
						...!pyuxss!mek
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