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From: "david presotto" <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] another termrc gripe
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:02:20 -0400
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I'll do it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Schwartz" <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:40 PM
Subject: [9fans] another termrc gripe


> Right now termrc unconditionally tells
> timesync to assume the rtc is not GMT.
> Writing
> aux/timesync -r $TIMESYNCGMT -a $TIMESYNCACCURACY
> would let us set TIMESYNCGMT in termrc.local.
>
> A similar environment variable, $USEDHCP say,
> could control how ipconfig is launched.
>
> I do wish rc had non-env variables, because
> otherwise these things leak into /env.
>
>