From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: H.J.Lu's distribution and ELM in MailPak Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:44:37 GMT
In article <1eb4crINN52e@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu writes:
>
>I compiled the mailpak's ELM last night, and couldn't get it to work...
>until I found the bug in the /.bash_profile...
>
>MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/$USER <--The problem is that $USER is undefined.
>
>Adding the line:
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> USER=`whoami`
>
>*BEFORE* the "MAIL" variable is set solves the problem nicely.
>
>
Or do what I did change $USER to $LOGNAME which is defined
anthony
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