SfinxLite $OSdir/local/envcap and ~/.envcap

The standard SfinxLite .cshrc will (among other things) read the system settings, which will set all necessary environment variables from the envcap database. The system copy is stored in $OSdir/local/envcap, and these definitions are augmented/superceded by those in the user's .envcap file (if it exists).

The format of those files is:

variable:hosts:values

where variable is the name of the variable to set, host is a list of hosts or host-types for which this variable should be set and value is the value.

Hosts

As mentioned above, the 2nd field on the line can be a mixture of host names (without domain name) or machine types. Names are separated by spaces. Currently, the following machine types are known:

Sun (SunOS 4.x)
Solaris (SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x)
HP (HP-UX; tested only for 9.x)
Linux (PC Linux, support for other hardware is not yet included)
IBM (IBM AIX)
DEC (DEC Ultrix, obsolete)
Convex (ConvexOS, obsolete)

Examples

Different variables or values

ENSCRIPT:Sun Solaris:-fCourier8
NENSCRIPT:Linux:-fCourier8

This sets the font for both enscript and nenscript on the systems wgere the respective programs are available

Modify system defaults

PATH:Sun Solaris:$PATH\:$SOFTWARE/bin:$SOFTWARE/$SFINX_MACHINE/bin:./bin
TAPE:vecht:/dev/nrst17

This adds $SOFTWARE directories to the path on both versions of the SUN operating system. And on vecht, it selects the exabyte as your default tape device (system default is DAT).

Notes:

Be careful with quotes and colons in the value of the variable. Colons should be preceded by a backslash (\:)

David.Jansen@strw.leidenuniv.nl

Last modified: Wed Nov 12 15:10:04 1997