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Operating Systems AIX Best way to setup my own environmental variables ? Post 302402288 by leebix on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 10:34:00 AM
Old 03-09-2010
One method would be to define common variables in a library file and source it in at the start of the script.
 

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termname(3XCURSES)					  X/Open Curses Library Functions					termname(3XCURSES)

NAME
termname - return the value of the environmental variable TERM SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> char *termname(void); DESCRIPTION
The termname() function returns a pointer to the value of the environmental variable TERM (truncated to 14 characters). RETURN VALUES
The termname() returns a pointer to the terminal's name. ERRORS
None. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
del_curterm(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 5 Jun 2002 termname(3XCURSES)
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