Environment Variables
Environment variables are used for customizing the Line Mode Browser and
the W3C Reference Library for a
particular user's requirements. Under unix, environment variables are
strings of the form:
name=value
They are used to pass information to programs to modify how they
should run. The UNIX kernel never looks at these strings - their
intepretation is up to the various applications.
Tim BL, and Henrik Frystyk,
libwww@w3.org, November 1995