On 29/12/02 Robert Land did speaketh: > NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de > export NNTPSERVER > > then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER > which resulted in a blank line in response. > > What was my fault and was this actually slrnpull > required?
That is the correct syntax for setting environment variables in the bash shell, even if it can be done in one line. Your syntax is not at fault here. I can't speak to the other potential causes. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html
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