Re: lynx-dev envir't variables (was passing data)

[Webmaster Jim]

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 08:38:27PM -0500, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> Here is at least a preliminary list of the environment variables.  I
> got these from grepping.  Perhaps someone with this list can begin looking
> them up and figuring out what they do...
 
 COLORTERM - color capability is inferred at startup
 LOGICAL_DEFAULT - not used
 LYNX_CFG - default Lynx configuration file
 lynx_cfg - 
 LYNX_LSS - default Lynx character style sheet file
 lynx_lss
 LYNX_SAVE_SPACE - prefix for save to disk paths
 LYNX_TEMP_SPACE - directory for Lynx storage
 MAIL - used to check mail
 NEWS_ORGANIZATION - used for outgoing news
 NNTPSERVER - NNTP news server
 ORGANIZATION - used for outgoing news
 WWW_HOME - default Lynx home URL

 cso_proxy, finger_proxy, ftp_proxy, gopher_proxy, 
  http_proxy, https_proxy, news_proxy, newspost_proxy,
  newsreply_proxy, nntp_proxy, no_proxy,  snews_proxy,
  snewspost_proxy, snewsreply_proxy, wais_proxy
  (something to do with proxies, I think :-)

The rest are, perhap self-evident?

Common UNIX environment variables:

 COLUMNS
 DISPLAY
 HOME
 LINES
 PATH
 PWD
 SHELL
 TEMP
 TERM
 TMP
 TMPDIR
 USER

VMS variables:

 CMUTEK_ROOT
 MULTINET_SOCKET_LIBRARY
 SYS$LOGIN
 SYS$SCRATCH
 UCX$BIND_DOMAIN
 UCX$DEVICE

DOS/Win32 variables:

 COMSPEC
 WINTCP_COMMAND_STYLE

NLS support variables:

 LANG
 LANGUAGE
 LC_ALL
 LC_MESSAGES
 NLSPATH

 The last one is not one of my relatives :-}

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