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From: heiser@ethz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: LINK_TIMEOUT environment variable
Message-ID: <21@ethz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 15:12:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 15:12:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Feb-87 01:47:30 EST
Reply-To: heiser@ethz.UUCP (Gernot Heiser)
Organization: CS Department, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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On our VAX/Ultrix systems everybody seems to have a line
setenv LINK_TIMEOUT 3
in their .login files, however nobody seems to know what it does.
A "grep LINK_TIMEOUT *" in the manuals did't help either. Does anybody know what this
environment variable is good for?

Please respond by mail
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Gernot Heiser
Institut fuer Integrierte Systeme,  ETH Zuerich, 8051 Zuerich, Switzerland
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