installing cx_Oracle.

[Charles Sanders]

Doug Phillips wrote:
>> It also works the other way around, at least on the non-empty 
>> set of systems that contains my workstation. export simply 
>> marks the variable name for automatic export to the 
>> environment of subsequent commands. The value at that time 
>> doesn't matter. What matters is the value that the name has 
>> at the time the command is run:
[snip]
> Just tried on a FreeBSD 6.1 development box with stock /bin/sh and it
> works there too...

As far as I know, it has been like this since the introduction
of the Bourne shell in (according to a web search) 1979.

Charles