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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: rc.conf vs sysconfig in 2.2.2-RELEASE
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:54:04 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199705280422.VAA08190@train.tgci.com> from "Riley J. McIntire" at "May 27, 97 08:49:48 pm"
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> uh,  I thought it would be "env EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi" ???

NO!

>  I did a "man export" and didn't find anything.

It's a shell builtin in sh'ksh'pdksh'bash-world

In (t)csh, you need

setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi

WITHOUT the ``=''!

Bye, Gabor

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