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In article <1992Jul24.145633.28258@cs.sfu.ca> patrice@cs.sfu.ca (Patrice  
Belleville) writes:
> From article <CMOORE.92Jul24092902@zenobia.mit.edu>, by  
cmoore@zenobia.mit.edu (Christopher B. Moore):
> > 
> > I've noticed (while installing the Auc-TeX package) that evaluation of
> > (getenv "HOSTTYPE") in an Emacs2.1 window started by clicking on the
> > Emacs2.1 icon in the workspace returns nil.  However, in an Emacs2.1
> > window started from the commandline it returns "next".  What gives?
> > 
> > Christopher B. Moore
> > cmoore@maggie.mit.edu
> 
> 
> 	Well, the problem is that the  workspace does not  run your .login  
or
> your .cshrc.   So programs  started from it  will not  have access  to    
your
> favorite environment variables. One fix is to add the following lines to  
your
> ..emacs file:
> 
> (setq process-environment (append
>         process-environment
> 	'("HOSTTYPE=next" "OTHERVAR=othervalue" [more of these])))
> 
> 
> -- 
>  
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> |* Patrice Belleville 					  
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> |*   --- Simon Fraser University is not responsible for my mistakes. ---    
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This only fixes some problems -- the *best* solution has been posted here  
before and is to rename emacs to (say) real_emacs and then write a script  
called emacs with the following content (replace tcsh with your favorite):

#!/usr/local/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/real_emacs $1

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