CLI Reference Guide

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NET.CFG Options Reference
Creating and Modifying a NET.CFG File
Creating and Modifying a NET.CFG File
1 Use a DOS text editor to type section headings and options in an existing
NET.CFG file or a NET.CFG file that you create to set up your client workstation
configuration.
The default location of the NET.CFG file is C:\NWCLIENT.
2 After a NET.CFG file is created or modified, copy or save the NET.CFG file to
the client workstation diskette or directory.
If all client workstations use the same NET.CFG file, you can save time by
copying the file onto a master client workstation diskette, then copying the
NET.CFG file to each client workstation. (The default location of the NET.CFG
file is C:\NWCLIENT.)
If each client workstation requires a unique NET.CFG file, you must copy a
unique file to each client workstation diskette or directory.
Entering Options and Parameters into the NET.CFG File
Use the following conventions when creating or modifying a NET.CFG file:
• Type one option or parameter per line.
Options and parameters are not case-sensitive unless used in quotation marks.
Blank lines are ignored, but they can be helpful in separating the options and
parameters to make the NET.CFG file easier to read.
• Enter options at the left margin of the file with no spaces before or after them.
Each option can have several parameters.
• Enter parameters, one per line, below the option that they apply to, and indent
each parameter line.
Use the Spacebar or Tab key to indent parameters. Parameters must be indented
at least one space.
• Place a hard return at the end of every line in the file, including the last line.
If you don’t put a return at the end of the last line, that line is ignored.
• Precede comment lines with a semicolon.
• User a semicolon (;) in front of a line to disable the option and parameter or write
a comment.