From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: stupid 'set' question 26 Nov 1998 02:02:13 GMT Message-ID: <73icr5$77$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <365B4FB8.AF218ECF.cygnus.gnu-win32@trc.tellabs.com> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <365B4FB8.AF218ECF.cygnus.gnu-win32@trc.tellabs.com>, Ken Laberteaux wrote: >I have been told that if I set the TERM environment variable to linux, >less will work within octave and bash. So I type from the bash shell > >set TERM linux > >or alternatively > >set TERM=linux > >Typing set after that reveals that TERM=dumb > >(which is how I feel) > >Help!! Think UNIX. You don't use `set var=something' in UNIX. You use either `export VAR=something' or `VAR=something; export VAR'. -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/