Request for help - can variable values be passed to an Activity ?

[K. K. Subramaniam]

On Wednesday 02 Sep 2009 7:27:15 pm Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> I tried that.  [Note that the syntax of /etc/environment is
> key=value (and is not interpreted), whereas in the other places in
> /etc it is a "normal bash command" that gets sourced.]  But even in
> /etc/environment, the variable did not get passed where I wanted.
Perhaps the activity was started before the variable was added to 
/etc/environment? .. Subbu