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ARB environment variables

OCCURRENCE

Anywhere

 

DESCRIPTION

Arb is aware of several environment variables:

  • ARBHOME

    Should be set to the arb install directory (usually /usr/arb)

  • LD_LIBRARY_PATH

    path to system libraries (should contain $ARBHOME/lib (i.e. /usr/arb/lib if $ARBHOME is /usr/arb)). Set by the 'arb' script.

  • ARB_TEXTEDIT

    The name of the editor you like to use when editing textlike files via ARB (default is to autodetect using arb_textedit)

  • ARB_XTERM

    The call which is needed to create a normal xterm (default: xterm -sl 1000 -sb -geometry 120x50 )

  • ARB_XCMD

    The call which is needed to create a xterm invoking external programs (default: $ARB_XTERM -e ).

  • USER

    your username (normally set by shell).

  • ARB_PID

    internal PID for communication (set by the 'arb' script)

  • ARBMACRO

    directory name where global ARB-macros may be provides by system administrator (default: $ARBHOME/lib/macros )

  • ARBMACROHOME

    directory name where your local ARB-macros will be saved to/loaded from (default: $HOME/.arb_prop/macros )

  • ARB_GS

    name of postscript viewer used by ARB (default: 'gv' or 'ghostview')

  • ARB_PDFVIEW

    name of pdf viewer used by ARB (default: 'epdfview' or 'acroread' or 'gv')

  • ARB_WORKDIR

    extra directory appearing in ARB-File-Browsers (default: none)

  • ARB_DOC

    directory where ARB searches for *.ps, *.ps.gz, *.pdf and *.pdf.gz (default: $ARBHOME/lib/help)


 

NOTES

Short description of how to set an environment variable:

  1. for bash users (add to .bashrc):

    ARB_GS='my_special_postscript_viewer'
    export  ARB_GS

  2. for tcsh users (add to .cshrc):

    setenv ARB_GS 'my_special_postscript_viewer'


 

EXAMPLES

None

 

WARNINGS

None

 

BUGS

No bugs known