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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:04:34 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Alexey M. Zelkin" <phantom@cris.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/13233: [PATCH] environ.7 is out-of-date
Message-ID:  <199908181804.WAA02835@scorpion.crimea.ua>

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>Number:         13233
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Some wide used environment variables not listed in environ.7
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 18 12:20:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alexey Zelkin
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:

-current about 4 days ago

>Description:

I have added and described PWD, PAGER and EDITOR environment variables.

Note: I note completely sure about description of PAGER ;) I understand that
but ... it's hard for me to say that with english. So, feel free to modify
its description.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Index: environ.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/CVSROOT/src/share/man/man7/environ.7,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -c -r1.11 environ.7
*** environ.7	1999/02/04 07:13:49	1.11
--- environ.7	1999/08/18 18:02:38
***************
*** 62,67 ****
--- 62,69 ----
  or ``m'' and in units of a gigabyte by specifying a number followed
  by ``G'' or ``g''.
  Sizes less than 512 bytes or greater than a gigabyte are ignored.
+ .It Ev EDITOR
+ Default editor name.
  .It Ev EXINIT
  A startup list of commands read by
  .Xr ex  1
***************
*** 83,88 ****
--- 85,96 ----
  .Xr mail  1 ,
  .Xr sh 1 ,
  and many other mailclients.
+ .It Ev PAGER
+ Default paginator name. Value of this variable is used by
+ .Xr mail 1 ,
+ .Xr man 1 ,
+ .Xf ftp 1 ,
+ etc, to display information which not fit to screen.
  .It Ev PATH
  The sequence of directories, separated by colons, searched by
  .Xr csh  1  ,
***************
*** 99,104 ****
--- 107,114 ----
  .Xr lpq  1 ,
  and
  .Xr lprm  1  .
+ .It Ev PWD
+ The current directory pathname.
  .It Ev SHELL
  The full pathname of the user's login shell.
  .It Ev TERM

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