Application level definition files

Examples of adding path aliases

Whenever you reference a pathname that does not begin with a / or a $, FMLI will check the alias file. For example:

   MYTEXT=$HOME/myfiles/mytext

would allow the developer to refer to the text file Text.file in the directory $HOME/myfiles/mytext as MYTEXT/Text.file.

The alias may also contain the name of the file or device, for example,

   MYTEXT1=$HOME/myfiles/mytext/Text.file

but frame definition filenames assigned to an alias must conform to the same naming convention as filenames on the invocation line.

More than one possible path may be assigned to a single alias by separating each path with a colon (:). For example:

   MYFILES=$HOME/myfiles:$HOME/test/myfiles

would search $HOME/myfiles first, and if the file is not found search $HOME/test/myfiles whenever the alias $MYFILES is used. This is similar to the way $PATH is searched in the UNIX system.