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From: dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: "h": undefined variable error
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.134717.2171@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 13:47:17 GMT
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In article <2807@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan) writes:
<< Whenever I try to call up the mailtool I get 
<<"h": undefined variable in my console.
<
<Try typing the following at your shell prompt "echo $h". You'll see the
<same error message (unless "h" is actually set to something). I would
<guess that a dot file somewhere is incorrect (ie .cshrc, .mailrc, 
<.mailtool-init, .textswrc, .who-knows).
<

Good guess ... it was the .mailrc file.  I had a line defined as
set h=No

This has been there since day one and worked fine with suntools.  Now all
I have to do is figure out how this line was created, since it is in just
about everyone's .mailrc file.  I checked the man pages for mail and
couldn't find any reference of it (I found set hold and set header, but
not set h).  Could this possibly be something that is a left-over from
my Sun OS3.x days and didn't get included when Sun went to OS4.x?

Thanks for the help.
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