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Re: stupid 'set' question
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- Subject: Re: stupid 'set' question
- From: cgf at cygnus dot com (Christopher G. Faylor)
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 02:02:13 GMT
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <365B4FB8.AF218ECF.cygnus.gnu-win32@trc.tellabs.com>
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In article <365B4FB8.AF218ECF.cygnus.gnu-win32@trc.tellabs.com>,
Ken Laberteaux <klaberte@trc.tellabs.com> wrote:
>I have been told that if I set the TERM environment variable to linux,
>less will work within octave and bash. So I type from the bash shell
>
>set TERM linux
>
>or alternatively
>
>set TERM=linux
>
>Typing set after that reveals that TERM=dumb
>
>(which is how I feel)
>
>Help!!
Think UNIX. You don't use `set var=something' in UNIX.
You use either `export VAR=something' or `VAR=something; export VAR'.
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