Here is a slightly simplified version of how I set my environment
variables.  This all lives in my $HOME/.env file (feel free to poke
around ~gjb/dots, where many of my environment configuration files
live, and ~gjb/emacs, where my emacs configuration lives.  I'm using
"sh" (bourne shell) syntax below (see ~gjb/.cshrc for an example of
[t]csh-style syntax).

You can also look at the files in /uns/share/lib/dotfiles -- they are
the old uns-suggested dot files maintained in years past by Paul
Franklin.  They may be somewhat outdated, but could provide a useful
starting place (though I highly recommend against using tcsh).

Of course, use this at your own risk, and, as always, understanding and
tweaking this for your personal needs is a Good Thing.

# start environment settings useful for /uns
UNAMEDIR=`/uns/share/bin/uname-dir`
export UNAMEDIR

PATH=$HOME/bin/share:$HOME/bin/$UNAMEDIR:/uns/egcs/bin:/uns/gnu/bin:\
/uns/bin:/uns/share/bin:/usr/local/bin:\
$PATH:\
/usr/afsws/bin:/usr/athena/bin:$HOME/bin/share/project-scripts:.
export PATH
# above lets you have ~/bin/<platform> for personal platform-specific
# links and binaries

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:$HOME/lib/$UNAMEDIR:\
/uns/egcs/lib:/uns/lib:\
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:\
/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

MANPATH=$HOME/man:/usr/local/trial/man:/uns/gnu/man:/uns/share/man:\
/usr/man:/usr/local/lab/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/mh/man:\
/usr/lib/perl5/man:/usr/local/dist-man
export MANPATH

SHELLINFOPATH=$HOME/info:/usr/info:/usr/local/info:/uns/share/info
export SHELLINFOPATH

XLOCAL=/uns/lib/X11; export XLOCAL
XLOCALSHARE=/uns/share/lib/X11; export XLOCALSHARE

XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=./%N%C:./%N:$HOME/.app-defaults/%N%C:$HOME/.app-defaults/%N:\
$XLOCAL/app-defaults/%T/%N%C:$XLOCAL/app-defaults/%T/%N:\
$XLOCALSHARE/app-defaults/%T/%N%C:$XLOCALSHARE/app-defaults/%T/%N;
export XUSERFILESEARCHPATH

PERLLIB=$HOME/perl/site-lib
export PERLLIB

LOCATE_PATH=/var/lib/locatedb:$HOME/private/locatedb:/uns/share/locatedb:/uns/locatedb
export LOCATE_PATH
# end environment settings useful for /uns


For emacs, consider adding:

(load "/uns/share/emacs/site-lisp/config-and-add-path.el")

to the beginning of your $HOME/.emacs file.  This updates your load-path
and sets up a bunch of macros to ease configuring across the various
versions of emacs installed within the department.

Also consider adding:

(load "package-autoloads")   ;; autoload functions that are so marked

and, if you want more autoloaded functions, also do:

(load "package-autoloads-more") ;; autoload other non-marked functions

Greg J. Badros
September 29, 1998