Supervising the Network

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Customizing the User Environment

Replace name with an environment parameter that identiﬁes the

environment you want to change.

Replace value with identiﬁer variable substitutions. Values must be enclosed

in quotation marks.

To change the environment for the login script, but not for the workstation

after the login script has ﬁnished executing, use the optional keyword

TEMP.

Using SET

Use the SET login script command the same way you use the DOS

command SET. However, when you use SET in a login script, you must

enter quotation marks (“ ”) around values.

NOTE: If a variable is set to a path that ends in a \”, these two characters are interpreted as

an embedded quotation mark preceded by an escape character. To avoid this

problem, use two backslashes before the ending double quotation marks (\\”).

The SET commands do not have to be included in login scripts.

For example, you may decide that it is easier to put some SET commands in

the workstation’s AUTOEXEC.BAT ﬁle. Where you use SET commands

depends upon your individual needs.

NOTE: This command does not work in a login script if the DOS workstation’s environment

is too small. In this case, you should set the environment size in the CONFIG.SYS

file.

See the SHELL command in your DOS manual for more information about

the environment size.

After you use the SET command to set a value for an environment variable,

you can use that variable in other login script commands.

To include an environment variable as an identiﬁer variable in a command,

enclose the name of the variable in angle brackets, for example,

<emailuser>.

Examples

• You can use SET to make a prompt display the current directory path, such as

F:\HOME\MARY>, rather than just the drive letter. To do this, add the following