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Date: Tue,  1 May 2007 10:39:13 +0100
From: matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: new termrc
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you could always do

sysname=foo

in plan9.ini

you can also set other environment variables in there to use in termrc, 
termrc.local and cpurc

I have a plan9.ini menu that sets ip=10.0.0.9 or 192.168.9.9 or DHCP 
which I then use in termrc.local to choose how to use ip/ipconfig