gnumeric and I bow our heads in gratitude

[Mel Seder <melseder yahoo com>]

Hi Adrian,
Thanks for showing me how to set the environment
variable for gnumeric.  Now can continue using
gnumeric without being hampered by renaming my changed
file.
I'm a member of PLUG "Prairie Linux User Group" in
Winnipeg CANADA.  Our homepage is www.openfarm.org you
are welcome to visit as you wish.

I am the treasurer of PLUG, until we have our first
annual general meeting at least, and I author short
articles each week and have them posted on our site. 
I will be using your response to my gnumeric question
as the basis for my next article.

Happy New Year and cheers to Linux!

--- Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu> wrote:
> Gnumeric 1.0 is about to come out. You are using an
> old version and will
> want to update. I believe this has not been an issue
> for quite a few
> vesions of gnumeric now.
>
>
> An environmental variable is a characteristic of the
> ways unix programs
> are run. All unix programs have certain data
> associated with them when
> they are run. One group of data are the
> environmental variables which
> are set for that program.
>
> If you open a shell you can look at the shell's
> environmental variables.
> if you use tcsh type
> setenv
> This will show you the variables which have been
> declared. So to do what
> you wanted you could:
>
> 1) open a terminal
> 2) type 
> /bin/tcsh (so we know we are in bash)
> 3) type
> setenv  GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE
> The variable is now set to nothing which is fine
> since its presence is
> all that's needed.
>
> You can also set local variables. with tcsh:
> set MYNAME bubba
> then
> echo $MYNAME
> and the shell will return
> bubba
>
> cheers,
> adrian
>
>
> On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 20:05, Mel Seder wrote:
> > I'm new at "lists" so if I am not using them the
> right
> > way please flame me :-)
> >
> > I'm starting to use gnumeric (version .67) more
> and
> > more often.  Last time I had any use for a
> spreadsheet
> > was 10 years ago. I am told to set an environment
> > variable called "GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE". 
> The
> > error message did not say how to set it or what to
> set
> > it to.  Can someone please point me in the right
> > direction or instruct me how to be able to
> re-write a
> > sheet after making a change
> > gnumeric-list mailing list
> > gnumeric-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
> >


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