If you want to employ an environment variable for ALL filePro programs and all users, you can put it into the filePro configuration file. This is done by running the configuration editor from the filePro Directory program. This editor allows you to place environment variables, one per line, along with the desired value. (Under Windows there is NO need to use the word " set " in this editor, it is automatically assumed.)
IMPORTANT: Values set inside the editor are overridden by changes made in the user s environment. In other words, if PFTMP is set in the configuration editor and again in the autoexec.bat or a user s personal .bat file (or ".profile" files under Unix), the global value set in the " config editor/file " file will be overridden by the local environment value.
The configuration editor is reached by choosing the filePro Directory from the filePro Plus Main Menu and then pressing the button marked " For Configuration Editor " . (Under ANSI normally F6).
There are 3 environment variables, which CAN NOT be set in the configuration editor/file. They are PFPROG, PFDIR and PFDATA. These must be set outside of the file somewhere else in the environment prior to starting filePro.
5.0 Enhancement - Numeric configuration variables can be entered as octal values by prefixing the value with zero instead of "0x" for hexadecimal values.