The -i switch allows you to override the default initialization file, which is normally miame.ini in the path specified by the MIAME environment variable. Particularly in a development or support environment, it can be useful to have several different versions of A-Shell installed simultaneously in different directories, or to have multiple virtual machines set up. These could be complete copies of customers’ systems, with identical logical device configurations. In order to execute A-Shell on a specific virtual machine, it is either necessary to first set the MIAME environment variable, for example:
SET MIAME=\VM\MACHINE1
ASHELL
or to override it with the -i switch:
ASHELL -i C:\VM\MACHINE1\MIAME.INI
Note that unlike the MIAME environment variable, the parameter is the actual name of the configuration file, and does not represent a directory.
