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From: joe@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Joe Galea)
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Subject: Re:Testing NCSA 2.3b14
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Date: 31 Jan 91 02:33:09 GMT
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>   Has anyone experienced the following?
>
>   If the configuration file config.tel is renamed to say X, and the
>environment variable CONFIGTEL set appropriately such as
>
>      		CONFIGTEL=c:\apps\ncsa23b\X
>
>all programs complain of the error "initializing network or getting
>configuration file".  The programs seem to check for the presence of
>config.tel first rather than using the environment variable CONFIGTEL
>to read the configuration file pointed to.
 
   The answer to the above is the following.

>>NCSA Telnet now looks for an environment variable CONFIG.TEL
>>(note the '.').  

   Thanks to all those who answered.

   Joe
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