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- Environment Settings Relevant to EPIC
-
- Numerous environment variables are recognized by . Environment variables are
- various settings that describe your login process on a Unix system. How they
- are set mainly depends on the command shell you use.
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- * For csh and tcsh shells:
- setenv variable "value"
-
- * For bash, ksh, and zsh shells:
- export variable="value"
-
- * For sh (a true Bourne shell) and ash shells, and Bourne-like shells:
- variable="value"
- export variable
-
- * For the rc and es shells (Plan 9 descendants):
- variable='value'
-
- For all shells (except rc and es), either single quotes (') or double quotes
- (") may be used. For all shells, the case of the variable is significant.
- Environment variables are, by convention, in all uppercase, and EPIC is no
- exception. The following variables are used by EPIC:
-
- IRCNICK default nickname when connecting to a server
- IRCNAME any lunacy you want instead of your real name
- IRCHOST default local host name to use on multihomed hosts
- IRCSERVER default server list, space delimited, serv:port:pass ok
- IRCPORT default server port to connect to
- IRCUMODE initial user mode (does not work on all servers)
- IRCPATH same as LOAD_PATH setting
- IRCRC alternate startup file (in lieu of ~/.ircrc)
- IRC_SERVERS_FILE same as compile-time SERVERS_FILE, specifies a file
- to get a list of servers from
-
- EPIC also uses the TERM and HOME variables, which are usually set when you
- login to your Unix system. All environment variables are available for
- use inside EPIC as normal variables, assuming another variable of the same
- name does not exist.
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