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System Parameters

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Following is a list of the A-Shell system parameters, also known as directives. These are terms that are used as verbs in the A-Shell configuration file, miame.ini. All lines except comments must begin with one of these directives followed by an equals sign. They are listed here in alphabetic order, and may appear in any order within miame.ini, except for SERIAL, which must be the first non-comment line of the file and is therefore listed first in the following table. See Boolean Arguments in Ini Files if needed.

Parameter

Description

 

Parameter

Description

SERIAL

Define A-Shell serial number

 

LOKSER

Specify LOKSER operation

ALIAS

Specify A-Shell subroutine aliases

 

MALLOCLIMIT

Specify limit on dynamic memory allocations

ALTRUNEXT

Define alternate RUN extensions

 

MAPIDA

Enable/disable ISAM Plus extension mapping

ALTSBXEXT

Define alternate SBX extensions

 

MAXINST

Specify max A-Shell instances per workstation

ATETIMEOUT

Set the ATE timeout period

 

MAXJOBS

Specify maximum number of jobs total

CHARSET

Specify A-Shell character set

 

MAXLOCKS

Specify max locks to track for LOKSER

COMPRGEXT

Define additional files that can be executed

 

MEMORY

Specify A-Shell memory partition

CONAME

Specify location of licensee name file

 

MMAPLIST

Specify files to be automatically memory mapped

CONSOLE

Define console device format & default driver

 

NOTRACE

Disables specific XCALL traces

DEVICE

Map devices to host machine pathnames

 

OPTIONS

Set miscellaneous A-Shell options

EFSEXT

Specify extensions to be encrypted.

 

POLYKEY

Define PolyShell hot key

ERSATZ

Specify ERSATZ definition file

 

PRINTER

Define default printer name

FILES

Specify A-Shell FILE buffers

 

QUEUE

Specify A-Shell queuing system

FKEYWAIT

Specify delay following function key lead in

 

QUITKEY

Define or disable Unix QUIT key

FLDATTR

Enable/disable field attributes

 

SBR

Tune operation of A-Shell subroutines

FONT

Specify A-Shell font face (Windows only)

 

SSD

Define returned SSD sequence

IATIMEOUT

Define idle timeout

 

SWAPKEY

Define PolyShell swap key

IJCFREQ

Define frequency of IJC clock

 

SWAPWAIT

Specify delay after screen swap

INCLUDE

Include specified file

 

TRACE

Activate debugging options

JOBPREFIX

Specify jobname prefix for auto-named jobs

 

TRMDEF

Define terminal characteristics

LANGUAGE

Specify language definition file

 

UMASK

Specify default file creation mask

LOGDIR

Specify location of ashlog.log file

 

XONXOFF

Enable or disable XON/XOFF protocol