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5 E11. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLESF
7 Elvis examines several environment variables when it starts up.
8 The values of these variables are used internally for a variety of
9 purposes. You don't need to define all of these; on most systems,
10 Elvis only requires TERM to be defined. On MS-DOS systems, even
16 TERM tells Elvis the name of the termcap entry to use. TERMCAP
17 may contain either the entire termcap entry, or the full pathname
18 of the termcap file to search through.
23 These only work for MS-DOS and Atari TOS. Either of these
24 variables may be used to set the "directory" option, which controls
25 where temporary files are stored. If you define them both, then
26 TMP is used, and TEMP is ignored.
31 This variable may contain a colon-mode command, which will be
32 executed after all of the ".exrc" files but before interactive
38 You can use COMSPEC in MS-DOS, or SHELL in any other system, to
39 specify which shell should be used for executing commands and
45 This variable should give the full pathname of your home
46 directory. Elvis needs to know the name of your home directory so
47 it can locate the ".exrc" file there.