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Environment Files

Some programs are designed to be run from a shell rather than directly by a program such as Stuart.  Since most shells set up a number of environment variables as part of starting up, these programs rely on the shell to provide a preset environment.

When these programs are run as the Shell in a Stuart window, there is no intervening shell to set up the environment in.  The EnvironFile preference can specify a file from which values which modify the the environment for the subprocess can be read.  See Appendices/Environment File for information on the format of environment files, and Utilities/wenv for information on a command-line utility to generate such files from within a shell.