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From: mikey@atocha.pa.dec.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DEC window manager stinks
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Date: 6 Oct 89 03:06:18 GMT
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In article <12443@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu
(Dirk Grunwald) writes:
> I use a CSH script called start-twm because this
> insures that twm will have a complete environment. i.e., if I don't do
> this, twm (and children born by menu actions) don't know about e.g.,
> PRINTER, TEXFONTS, etc etc. Kind of annoying.

If your SHELL environment variable is set to /bin/csh and you define things
like PRINTER and TEXFONTS in your .cshrc file, they'll be in the environment
of children born by menu actions.

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