Pls. help, I just installed visualworks on Red hat. At the end got this instructions to set an environment variable name VISUALWORKS to the value: /usr/local/vw7 in the appropriate unix startup file.

PLS. TELL ME, HOW DO I DO THAT?
Thank you in advance.

well, you can add this to the /etc/rc.local file

export VISUALWORKS=/usr/local/vw7

and you can also type it in console, that should be what it is asking, there is a better fiel to add that to, but rc.local should work, and you don't risk screwing anything up.

on a console type
export VISUALWORKS=/usr/local/vw7

To make it permanent:
ther should be a .bashrc file in your home directory. (The period at the beginning marks a hidden file).

add

export VISUALWORKS=/usr/local/vw7

and save.

lol, leonscape, we keep answering the same forums, and now we both sent the same general idea.. sweet deal.

AND you keep beating me to it!!!

Thanks so much to both of you for your quick reply.
But I am sorry, I am new to this kind of environment, I am still lost.. really sorry about that.. I typed: export VISUALWORKS=/usr/local/vw7 (and it was accepted). But I don't know how to save that.
Kindly tell me step-by-step; Thank you for bearing with me.

Put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local [or somewhere like that]....

Hi dante -

I am not familiar with RedHat, but they are saying to open the file named 'rc.local' which is in directory /etc/rc.d, or the file '.bashrc' which is in your home directory, add the line as you typed it in the console, and save the file. I don't know which file is the preferable location in RH.

you can use any text editor to do that - maybe kedit, or whatever RH installs - look in the menu under "text editors" or some similar title. you can always use vi, but it can be a bit confusing at first.

to get a listing of your current environment variables, try typing 'env' in a console.