Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: zimmerms@sunbayer53.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephan Zimmermann)
Subject: Re: PVM and Environment Variables
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany	
Date: 17 Feb 1997 09:54:17 GMT
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[Posted and mailed]

In article <3305BD5F.4A51@ee.upatras.gr>,
	"Christos A. Goumopoulos" <goumop@ee.upatras.gr> writes:
> 
> A pvm application needs to read an environment variable in order
> to execute. When this program is spawned on remote hosts the variable 
> is not there and the application terminates. More or less from
> what I know this is expectable, provided that i use ksh.
> Is it possible to set environment variables with this shell in a
> situation as the one described above? Another shell like like csh
> can remedy this problem?

There ist the PVM_EXPORT variable that tell PVM which variable
should be inherited by the pvm children. Usualy you will
set this variable like
setenv PVM_EXPORT DISPLAY
(tcsh syntax).

I hope this helps, bye

Stephan