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SmallEiffel Help: System customisation

The system.se file

On starting execution, SmallEiffel first looks in the file system.se, which must be in the directory /usr/lib/smalleiffel/sys.

This file holds the current system name ("UNIX", "Windows", "Macintosh", "DOS", "OS2", "Amiga", "VMS" and so on). To see the full list of systems currently supported by SmallEiffel, put a bad system name in system.se and then run, for example, se-compile.

When the system name is correctly set in system.se, SmallEiffel does some automatic customisation. For example, if system.se contains the string "DOS", SmallEiffel uses the suffix ".BAT" for script files and the suffix ".EXE" for executables.

On a Debian system, system.se should contain the string UNIX.



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This page was last changed by Oliver Elphick on 3rd August 1997.