setting variables in ubuntu 7.10

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Bob Holtzman <holtzm at sonic.net> wrote:
> It's been a long time since I set up my last computer (RH7.3...yeah, it's
>  been that long ago) and I can't remember how I set my ISP's NNPT server
>  name and made it persistant. I can use "export <server name> and run my
>  news reader immediately after with no problem. As soon as I exit the
>  reader (slrn) and close the xterm window the server name is lost.
>
>  In RH the variables are in ~/.bashrc but ubuntu doesn't have this file.
>  There is a ~/.profile file that appears to be the equivalent. Is this
>  typical of debian based distros or do I have a problem other than failed
>  memory (mine...not the computer's)?

Just create it...
http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/book/node217.html
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
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failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
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