On 11/30/01 somewhere around the time of 5:04 PM -0600, Dave Huang spoke about "Re: export and packages":


>On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Ryan La Riviere wrote:
>> Um...which .tgz installs the export command when installing from CD?
>>
>> I had, I thought, installed all the pieces to NBDS (except the
>> X-Window stuff) but export isn't there.
>>
>> The reason I ask is I want to install packages from the NetBSD ftp
>> server and one of the instructions says to use the export
>> command...which isn't there (or at least it's not in any of the
>> executable paths.
>
>The only export command I know of is the sh builtin... if you're using
>csh instead (which is the default), "setenv" is basically the
>equivalent. Which instruction file is this? To install packages, I just
>use pkg_add whatever-1.2.tgz

I was reading the instructions from the CD: INSTALL.html

>If the instructions say to do something like:
>
>SOMESETTING=hello
>export SOMESETTING

they had: export PKG_PATH=[ftp address]
then: pkg_add -v [package name]

>try using:
>
>setenv SOMESETTING hello
>
>instead.


I had forgotten about setenv since that's what's used on OS X.  Duh.  Can't believe I forgot that command.

Thanks.
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