The runtime system uses the following rules to decide what the configuration file is called:
- If the
-c runtime option is used, the configuration file is the one named by that option
- If the operating system environment variable A_CONFIG is defined, its value is the name of the configuration file
- The configuration file is named according to the host operating system. This depends on the operating system used by the
machine, as outlined in the following table
| System
|
Configuration File
|
| Windows
|
\etc\cblconfi
|
| UNIX/Linux
|
/etc/cblconfig
|
CAUTION:
Don't give a data file a name that is the same as a configuration variable name. Doing so can cause problems if you map the
data filename through a configuration entry. For example, if you have a data file named
CURRENCY, the runtime system may confuse the data file with the configuration variable of the same name, inadvertently changing the
default currency character.