Ok, thanks..

After putting those in /etc/profile its working fine.. 
I didnt install the appropriate man pages, so when I had done a man on that
it didnt come up, fixed that and got the page.. 

Thanks again =)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasz Papszun [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 1:22 PM
> To:   Joel Foote
> Cc:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: maildir2mbox
> 
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 at  7:06:40 -0700, Joel Foote wrote:
> > Whenever I run maildir2mbox, either directly or using elq etc.. I get:
> > fatal: MAILTMP not set.. 
> > 
> > Where do I set this? I have been unable to find any info about it, I
> even
> > tried setting a global variable, it didnt help.. 
> > 
> 
> man maildir2mbox
> [...]
>        You   must   supply   three   environment   variables   to
>        maildir2mbox:  MAILDIR  is the name of your maildir direc-
>        tory; MAIL is the name of your mbox file; and MAILTMP is a
>        temporary  file  that maildir2mbox can overwrite.  MAILTMP
>        and MAIL must be on the same filesystem.
> 
> 
> It depends on your shell. E.g. for Bourne-like one:
> export MAILTMP=some_temporary_file
> 
> I think that a file named ~/mailtmp would be OK.
> If it works, you can add it to one of your session-startup files 
> (maybe into ~./bash_profile or - if for all users - /etc/profile).
> 
> -- 
>  Tomasz Papszun   SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland  | And it's only
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