Several environment variables are created and/or used by A-Shell and ATE, and they are all described in the following sections. Note that:
| • | In nearly every command context where you can specify a filespec, you can embed an environment variable reference by surrounding the environment variable name by %, e.g. "%miame%\doc\ashelp.mdf". |
| • | A-Shell treats environment variable names as case insensitive (i.e. %MIAME% and %miame% are equivalent). This is consistent with Windows, which treats environment variables as case insensitive, but it might be confusing in the Unix environment, where environment variable names are case sensitive (and traditionally upper case.) |
| • | ATE environment variables (e.g. ATE, ATECACHE) are visible only to the ATE client process and any of its children, e.g. APEX, client-side SBX calls, AUXLOC: print file processing, AG_xxx functions, etc. The server can query these variables remotely using the AG_GETENV command. |
Variable |
Platform |
Source |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Win |
M |
Defines the location of the APEX work files and archived print files. |
|
|
|
Optional definition of the client's IP address. |
|
Win |
M |
Activates low level FTP debugging |
|
Unix |
M |
Directory to use for creation of temporary files used during spool processing. |
|
ASQLTRACE |
All |
M |
Set to 1 to activate detailed tracing of SQLxs operations. |
Win P2P |
M |
Defines local directory for automatic image caching. |
|
ATE |
ATE |
Same as %MIAME% but for ATE only |
|
ATE |
ATE, CP |
Temporary cache (cleared on exit) |
|
ATE |
ATE, CP |
Permanent cache (not cleared on exit) |
|
ATE |
ATE |
ATE or A-Shell/Windows executable filespec (Pseudo-environment variable) |
|
ATE Svr |
AS |
Returns a value indicating ATE license method. |
|
ATE |
ATE, CP |
Default Local Directory from the connection properties dialog. |
|
ATEPROFILE |
ATE |
ATE, CP |
ATE defines this variable to match the name of the current connection profile. |
ATE |
ATE |
ATE or A-Shell/Windows version (pseudo-environment variable) |
|
CURRENTDIRECTORY |
All |
A |
Current directory (e.g. c:\vm\miame\dsk0\001004) |
ATE Svr |
M |
Use ATE protocol for some subroutine communications. |
|
FTP2TIMEOUT |
All |
M |
Overrides default timeout for FPT2 of 60 seconds. |
Unix |
U, M |
Standard Unix variable defining the user's home directory. |
|
All |
A |
A-Shell base directory—i.e., the location of miame.ini. |
|
MIAMEFILE |
All |
A |
Complete filespec of miame.ini; is created automatically by A-Shell once it locates miame.ini. |
ATE |
ATE, CP |
Alias for ATEPERMCACHE |
|
Unix |
U, M |
Same as ASHCLIENTIP, but somewhat extended. |
|
SYSTEMDIRECTORY |
Win |
A |
Windows system directory (e.g. c:\Windows\System32) |
Unix |
U, M |
Standard Unix variable defining terminal type |
|
WINDOWSDIRECTORY |
Win |
A |
Windows directory (e.g. c:\Windows) |
ATE Svr |
M |
Disable XTREE data transfer optimization. |
Meaning of codes in "Source" column above:
Code |
Meaning |
Description |
|---|---|---|
M |
Manual |
Defined optionally and manually by user |
ATE |
ATE client |
Defined automatically by ATE client |
CP |
ATE connection profile |
Definition is based on parameter in connection profile |
AS |
A-Shell server |
Defined automatically on server upon connection from ATE client |
A |
A-Shell |
Defined automatically in all A-Shell environments |
U |
Unix |
Typically defined automatically by Unix shell |
