On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:48:22 -0800, Justin Walker <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Dec 28, 2004, at 4:59, Michael Stillwell wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:59:50 +0530, Hemanta Pathak
> > <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> I want to set some user -defined environment variables .
> >> To do this I used the setenv in Jaguar and set in Panther.
> >
> > .profile should actually work provided sh or bash is your shell. You
> > can also do this via ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist; see
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
>
> This doesn't actually work the way you state it. The latter file will
> work for "Aqua" apps that actually use environment variables (not many
> do), but not for command line apps that come from the Unix world.
Are you sure about this? Variables set in ~/.MacOX/environment.plist
appear in shells started by Terminal.app, at least.
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