From: htoaster@yabbs
To: dmonger@yabbs
Subject: re: A suggestion-
Date: Wed Feb 23 10:23:17 1994
In message re: A suggestion-, dmonger said:
> do both default to the internal pager/editor if there isn't an
> environment variable set?

By default, no, but that is because currently yabbsnet.tar.gz is basically
a copy of my working sources, and I want to have yabbs use less on my machine.
Eventually (pretty soon) I need to repackage my source layout so that I have
my setup and the default setup, making the default setup a little better.

> It might be easier to install on a site with clueless users (won't
> have to explain what env variables are to everyone) and brobably wouldn't
> be too hard to add

It isn't hard to add, just change one define in yabbs/yabbs.h.  In fact it
looks like I have the default editor set to joe, which is why people are 
having problems.  I'll change it to internal now...  never mind, looking 
back on the code later, it looks like I commented out support for F_EXTERNED.

> would also make it easier to port to systems without environment variables
> (i know on ThinkC if anyone ever gets bored enuf to port yabbs to the mac
> it returns an error code from the getenv function, but it does provide one)

yeah, it would.  Like I said, I need to come up with a new packaging scheme
that makes life easier for everyone.

alex