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

[Leonid Pauzner]

I think this should go into Lynx_user_guide.html
just after command-line switches and before lynx.cfg note.
May provide a patch unless someone already done.


1-Dec-98 01:14 Webmaster Jim wrote:
> 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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