Re: Gnumeric 0.65 & Excel

[Phillip J Shelton <shelton11 dingoblue net au>]

"Rory D. Hudson" wrote:

> Thanks for your help Zbigniew, but I am still having a bit of trouble.
> Please help
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Zbigniew Chyla [mailto:cyba gnome pl]
> Sent:   Saturday, May 26, 2001 5:27 AM
> To:     Rory D. Hudson
> Cc:     gnumeric-list gnome org
> Subject:        Re: Gnumeric 0.65 & Excel
>
> On Fri, 2001-05-25 at 15:27:22, Rory D. Hudson wrote:
>
> > Ok I just downloaded the 0.65 version of gnumeric and I have a few
> > questions.  First, it states that I need to set a value for
> > GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE.  What value do I set this to, and how do
> I
> > do this?
>
> You should set environment variable named GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE
> to
> _any_ value. If you're using bash, just add put the following line
> somewhere
> in your ~/.bash_profile:
> export GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE=1
>
> Ok I  do not have a .bash_profile would I need to put this somewhere
> else?

Do you have a .bashrc file?   This would also do it.  Or if you are not
using bash then there should be a .<shell>rc  file.