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From: gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau (Dances with PostScript))
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Env Vars
Message-ID: <6214@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 17 May 91 18:07:41 GMT
References: <1991May7.211628.5275@citib.com>
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Reply-To: gaudreau@east.sun.com (Joe Gaudreau (Dances with PostScript))
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - BDC
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scairns@citib.com (Scott Cairns) writes:
=We're running SunOS 4.1 with OpenLook 2.0 window manager.
=
=I want to modify the OpenLook init.ps file so that I can
=check the value of an environment variable (in postscript
=language of course) and take appropriate action. 
=
=Something along the lines of:
=
=(1) get value of env variable (e.g. LOGO)
=
=(2) if (LOGO == 1) 
=
=        run some post-script file
=
=    else
=    
=        continue on
=
=Not knowing post-script and not finding any sample post-script
=code in the ~openwin directory that does something like this, I
=was hoping for some suggestions...

Piece of PS (actually NeWS):

(LOGO) getenv  1 eq {%ifelse
	(somefilename) run
} if

%continue on...

Is this what you wanted?

Joe
-=-

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