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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Why does 4.3BSD tip let you set phones from environment but not .tiprc?
Message-ID: <7350@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 13:04:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 13:04:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 05:22:25 EST
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Keywords: tip bsd

The 4.3BSD version of "tip" lets you use the environment variables
"PHONES" and "REMOTE" to name alternate phone and remote files to be used.
Figuring I might avoid environment clutter, I put a
	phones=/name/of/alternate/phone/file
in my .tiprc file, only to be chided with an
	access denied
message.

Now before I go fixing this seeming bug. . .is there a good reason for allowing
phones and remote to be set from the environment but not from the .tiprc file?
If you know of one, please let me know by mail.
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