NeWS environment

[Mark Callow]

In article <1991May10.141105.10129 at cid.aes.doe.CA>, aspgpas at cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) writes:
|> This problem drives me nuts.
|> 
|> BASIC QUESTIONS:  
|> 
|> HOW DOES WINDOW MANAGER GET IT'S ENVIRONMENT ?
|> 
|> HOW CAN I DEBUG .login WHICH ONLY FAILS WHEN STARTING NeWS ?
|> 

Read the man page for exporttonews(1).  This program is run from the NeWS
startup file, /usr/NeWS/lib/NeWS/init.ps, to read you environment and send
it to NeWS.  The important thing to remember is that commands that need
a tty will fail during this exporttonews operation.
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