PSIONICS FILE - ENVVARS
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Environment variables
Last modified 1998-11-06
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Psion system software always places a dollar sign ($) in the names of the
environment variable it uses. Other applications should use names without a
dollar sign in them.
Psion issues environment variable name prefixes to registered developers;
these prefixes will contain dollar signs, but names based on them should
have no further dollar signs.
The following environment variables are known:
"$WS_FL": initial value of the window server settings (changeable using
the wSystem call). Only applies to window server version 4.
Offset 0 (word): initial settings
"$WS_FNTS": fonts used by the window server (version 4):
Offset 0 (word): general system purposes
Offset 2 (word): notifer and alerts
Offset 4 (word): status window
Offset 6 (word): special font holding the diamond symbol
Offset 8 (word): medium digital clock
Offset 10 (word): medium date
Offset 12 (word): notifier/alert buttons
Offset 14 (word): small status window clock
"$WS_PW": owner information: up to 218 bytes:
Offset 3 (byte): length of first line
Offset 4 (byte): offset of start of first line (always 18)
Offset 7 (byte): length of second line
Offset 8 (byte): offset of start of second line
Offset 11 (byte): length of third line
Offset 12 (byte): offset of start of third line
Offset 15 (byte): length of fourth line
Offset 16 (byte): offset of start of fourth line
Offset 18 onward: text of the information
@The remaining bytes appear to be zero, except 2,6,10,14, which are $6. Why ?
"C$P#": parameters used by Link. [Workabout only]
"C$P$": current keyboard setting. [Workabout only]
Offset 0 (byte): setting (0 = standard, 1 = special)
"C$P@": current drive last time the command processor was exited.
[Workabout only]
Offset 0 (byte): drive letter (e.g. $4D or %M for the internal drive)
"C$PA": current path on drive A last time the command processor was exited.
[Workabout only]
Offset 0 (cstr): current path
If the variable is unset, then the path is the root directory. Variables
"C$PB" to "C$PZ" can also exist.
"D$X": @@@ alleged to be something to do with dialling settings
"EM$": full pathname of the 8087 emulator software.
Offset 0 (cstr): pathname
"P$D": printer device: 1 byte:
Offset 0 (byte):
48 = print device is a parallel port
49 = print device is a serial port
50 = print device is a file
"P$F": print to file name: up to 128 bytes:
Offset 0 (cstr): last file used for printing to file
"P$M": printer driver: up to 129 bytes:
Offset 0 (byte): printer driver model number
Offset 1 (cstr): printer driver library
A printer driver library can support several similar printers; the model
number specifies which is selected.
"P$S": serial port setup: 12 bytes:
@Unknown, but includes fields called tbaud, rbaud, frame, parity, hand,
xoff, xon, flags, tmask@@something called P_SRCHAR format@
"S$SVER": system screen version number. [Workabout only]
Offset 0 (cstr): version number as text
"WP$SPEL": used by the word processor @in some way when constructing its
menus, probably to indicate that the spell checker is available.
"WP$THES": used by the word processor @in some way when constructing its
menus, probably to indicate that the thesaurus is available.
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