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From: boykin@custom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Putting an '=' in an environment variable
Message-ID: <654@custom.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 14:53:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: custom.654
Posted: Tue May 26 14:53:39 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 27-May-87 05:02:27 EDT
References: <210@ttrde.UUCP>
Organization: Custom Software Systems; Natick, MA
Lines: 27
Keywords: PC/VI,=
Summary: Use VI.INI Instead

In article <210@ttrde.UUCP>, rdj@ttrde.UUCP (Robert D. Jackson) writes:
> I am using a version of PC/VI, and have been trying for some time now
> to get the EXINIT environment variable set to my liking.  On Unix, it is
> set as such:
> 
> EXINIT="set ai sw=4 terse"
> export EXINIT
> 
> On the PC, I am unable to get an '=' in an environment variable,
...
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bob Jackson
> ihnp4!ttrdc!ttrde!rdj
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Unfortunately, DOS does not permit environment variables to contain
an equal sign (or a |, and probably others).  The result is that
while we support the EXINIT environment variable, as the manual says,
we recommend the use of the VI.INI (pronounced .exrc under UNIX)
initialization file.  The advantage of using EXINIT under UNIX
is speed, you don't have to do the disk I/O to read in the file.
Emperically, it doesn't seem to be any slower using VI.INI instead
of EXINIT.

Joe Boykin
Custom Software Systems
...necntc!custom!boykin