On 12/5/05, Hans Aberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to use the emacs21 newsreading tool (in X11). Apparently, one should set > the NNTPSERVER environment variable, which I can do using the command: > env NNTPSERVER=<newsserver> emacs21 & > But two problems: Newsreading still does not work within emacs21. And I am > unable to set the environment variable NNTPSERVER in other ways so that > emacs21 can see it. For example, the following two commands in bash (as in > uxterm) won't work: > NNTPSERVER=<newsserver> > emacs21 &
You'd want to use export NNTPSERVER=<newsserver> otherwise it's not treated as an environment variable. > What's wrong, and is there a fix? > > Hans Aberg > > > > However, if the intial method tha you're using doesn't work then more than likely something else is going on. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
