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SubjectRe: ld.so 1.9.1 and glibc 2.0.1
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@analogic.com> writes:

> It doesn't know what "VISUAL" is. This is not in my environment, and does
> not appear to have been set in the script. Although I am relatively new
> at Unix (only 15 of the 20 years it's been around) and I'm learning new
> things you are "supposed" to do practically every day, what is the
> "VISUAL" environment to which your script refers?
>
>
> # If they don't have a preferred editor set, then use
> if [ -z "$VISUAL" ]; then
> if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
> EDIT=vi
> else
> EDIT="$EDITOR"
> fi
> else
> EDIT="$VISUAL"
> fi

In the old days, EDITOR and VISUAL were set to

EDITUR=/bin/ed
and
VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi

(or whatever path).

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