Specifications

CHAPTER 3: MORE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
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Introduction
This section describes how to change additional workstation configuration
items including Quartus II general environment variables, Quartus II
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environment variables, user names, language settings, and
fonts.
Setting Environment Variables
This section describes the environment variables that the Quartus II
software uses to configure various options and locate files.
If you are using the C shell, environment variables are located in your .cshrc
file, and have the following format:
setenv <environment variable> <value>
If you are using the Bourne or Korn shell, environment variables are located
in your .profile file, and have the following format:
set <environment variable> = <value>
Quartus II General Environment
Variables
The Quartus II software installation process initializes the following
variables, but you may wish to change them to optimize your system
performance.
QUARTUS_ROOTDIR
The QUARTUS_ROOTDIR variable specifies the name of the Quartus II
system directory. The default directory is /opt/altera<version number>. You
should change this variable only if the system displays an error message
indicating that Quartus II files cannot be found when you start the program.