On 1/4/06, Gregory, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone / Dan
>
> I'm on digest so appologies for any slow replies, but digest is best for me 
> at work atm.
>
> Anyways, i was reading through and came across this message from Daniel. It's 
> not about emacs or the differences between using xterm/apple's terminal. But 
> i would like to ask people (that are experienced in 'unix' and fink) as to 
> what they have inside their shell's dotfile and also their .profile file too.
> Can i have a look? :)
>

Mine's got a bunch of appliation-specific cruft in it--I prefer to set
DISPLAY manually when the need arises.  It's not too interesting
otherwise.


> Reading the below i'm wondering if i've not set up half of the env's that i 
> should! <shrug>?  ie, just what should 'Display' be set to in the shell's 
> dotfile anyhow? I'm not at the Mac atm, but iirc, i think mine is set to 
> something like 0:0

:0.0 most likely.

>
> I use KDE with Apple's X11 and all is hunky dorey! The only problem i've 
> currently got is trying to install 'vice' using fink. This never works for 
> me, so i downloaded the source and compiled it myself..wow it worked!

Nice!  Is this a later version than Fink uses?


>
> So now i look back and wonder if my 'profiles' are fine!?
>

The main thing that I can remember off the top of my head that people
often do that causes problems is setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.

> I'll post my dotfiles when i get home later, if anyones interested? I'd love 
> to see what the pro's here are using though! :)
>
> cheers all,
> Steve
>
> /noob alert
>
>
<snip>
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/


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