Environment Settings Relevant to EPIC

Numerous environment variables are recognized by . Environment variables are various settings that describe your login process on a Unix system. How they are set mainly depends on the command shell you use.

For csh and tcsh shells:
setenv variable “value”

For bash, ksh, and zsh shells:
export variable=“value”

For sh (a true Bourne shell) and ash shells, and Bourne-like shells:
variable=“value”
export variable

For the rc and es shells (Plan 9 descendants):
variable='value'

For all shells (except rc and es), either single quotes (') or double quotes (“) may be used. For all shells, the case of the variable is significant. Environment variables are, by convention, in all uppercase, and EPIC is no exception. The following variables are used by EPIC:

IRCNICK	default nickname when connecting to a server
IRCNAME	any lunacy you want instead of your real name
IRCHOST	default local host name to use on multihomed hosts
IRCSERVER	default server list, space delimited, serv:port:pass ok
IRCPORT	default server port to connect to
IRCUMODE	initial user mode (does not work on all servers)
IRCPATH	same as LOAD_PATH setting
IRCRC	alternate startup file (in lieu of ~/.ircrc)
IRC_SERVERS_FILE	same as compile-time SERVERS_FILE, specifies a file to get a list of servers from

EPIC also uses the TERM and HOME variables, which are usually set when you login to your Unix system. All environment variables are available for use inside EPIC as normal variables, assuming another variable of the same name does not exist.