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Re: Environment Variable with "="s (Was: Re: tex previewers)

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From: Bruce Kitchin
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:29
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Minghua SHAN (shan@ms.uky.edu) wrote:
: In article <1k8uijINNd38@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
: >
: >Set an envronment variable:
: >SET DVISCR= /oa=14 /ocr=1 /s=4
: >
: >or alternatively put the switches on the command line.
: >
: 
: But how does one set such an environment variable?
: OS/2 does not like those "="s.
: 

I believe you need to use quotes.  For example:

  set DVISCR="/oa=14 /ocr=1 /s=4"
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Subject: Re: Environment Variable with "="s (Was: Re: tex previewers)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:29:58 GMT
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