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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: NeWS environment
Keywords: .login user.ps environment NeWS
Message-ID: <1991May13.230801.29540@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 13 May 91 23:08:01 GMT
References: <1991May10.141105.10129@cid.aes.doe.CA>
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In article <1991May10.141105.10129@cid.aes.doe.CA>, aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) writes:
|> This problem drives me nuts.
|> 
|> BASIC QUESTIONS:  
|> 
|> HOW DOES WINDOW MANAGER GET IT'S ENVIRONMENT ?
|> 
|> HOW CAN I DEBUG .login WHICH ONLY FAILS WHEN STARTING NeWS ?
|> 

Read the man page for exporttonews(1).  This program is run from the NeWS
startup file, /usr/NeWS/lib/NeWS/init.ps, to read you environment and send
it to NeWS.  The important thing to remember is that commands that need
a tty will fail during this exporttonews operation.
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc
"Spirits of genius are always opposed by mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein