The setenv equivalent in Ubuntu

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:37:46PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:52:21PM +0430, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
>> What's the setenv command's equivalent in Ubuntu? I want to set the
>> CVSHOME to some directory but it looks like that Ubuntu does not
>> recognize the setenv command.
>
>That's not a matter of Ubuntu vs. other Unix systems; you're simply
>expecting a C-style shell while most modern Unix systems provide a
>Bourne-style shell by default. If your expectations are based on a C
>shell, you'll probably need to get used to the shell mostly from
>scratch.
>
>Try 'export CVSHOME=/whatever/directory'.

What is CVSHOME used for? (CVSROOT and CVS_RSH I know...)

/M

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