Environment Variables

Here is a table of all environment variables which are used by Gcal:

COLUMNS

CO

Sets the number of columns on the screen. Takes precedence over the number of columns specified by the TERM environment variable or the system itself.

GCAL

Flags which are passed to Gcal automatically.

GCALANSI

If defined or set, ANSI escape highlighting sequences are used respectively substituted by default if no other highlighting sequences are defined by command line option or found in the Termcap library.

GCAL_DATE_FORMAT

Contains the date format text which defines the ordering of a displayed date. Takes precedence over the default date format text.

GCALPATH

(`:') colon-separated list of directories which are searched to find the `.gcalrc' file. Takes precedence over GCAL_USR_DATADIR and GCAL_SYS_DATADIR.

GCALPROG

Contains the file name of the executable Gcal program that is used by the tcal program to call Gcal. Takes precedence over the file name gcal which is burned-in during the compilation step of tcal.

GCAL_USR_DATADIR

Name of a directory relative to HOME directory, where the user stores personal, respectively private access resource files (dates files). Takes precedence over GCAL_SYS_DATADIR.

GCAL_SYS_DATADIR

Name of a directory absolute root/$(prefix) directory, where the system-administrator stores common, public access resource files (dates files).

HOME

Name of the users home directory. This is used to find the `.gcalrc' file. Takes precedence over GCALPATH, GCAL_USR_DATADIR and GCAL_SYS_DATADIR.

LANGUAGE

The national language and other cultural-specific conventions used by Gcal at run-time. Takes precedence over LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES and LANG.

LC_ALL

The national language and other cultural-specific conventions used by Gcal at run-time. Takes precedence over LC_MESSAGES and LANG.

LC_MESSAGES

The national language and other cultural-specific conventions used by Gcal at run-time. Takes precedence over LANG.

LANG

The national language and other cultural-specific conventions used by Gcal at run-time.

LINES

LI

Sets the number of lines on the screen. Takes precedence over the number of lines specified by the TERM environment variable or the system itself.

MAILPROG

Name of the mailer program which is used if the mailing option is wanted. See section Global options, for more details.

PAGER

Name of the external pager program which is used if the paging option is wanted. See section Global options, for more details.

PATH

(`:') colon-separated list of directories which are searched to find the external pager program. See section Global options, for more details.

TERM

The type of terminal on which Gcal is being run.

TZ

The time zone information which is added to the date text of send eMails, created response files and created shell script files.

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