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Although some aspects of FWEB's behavior are hard-coded, many can be changed and/or initialized by the user.
On startup, FWEB attempts to read an initialization file. This always
resides in the user's home directory. It is usually called .fweb
(fweb.ini
on personal computers). The default file name can be
overridden by the environment variable FWEB_INI
.
One may put into .fweb
any option that might be used as a
command-line option. (Presently, there must be just one entry per
line.) If the option begins with a -
(or a +
for backward
compatibility), it is processed before the actual command-line
options; if it begins with &
or is a file name, it is processed
after. Generally, .fweb
options should begin with -
so
that one may override them from the command line. The %
sign
begins a comment terminated by the end-of-line.