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4 Setup
The Setup program, FDSETUP hereafter, is used to configure FrontDoor.
Most functions and behavior of the Editor (FM), Mailer (FD), and
Terminal are controlled from FDSETUP. When you start FDSETUP, it
searches for the system file, SETUP.FD, in the directory pointed to
by the FD environment variable.
If the FD variable has not been set, FDSETUP searches the current
directory for SETUP.FD. If it cannot open SETUP.FD, it will ask you
if you want to create a new file or abort.
4.1 FD environment variable
The FD environment variable specifies where FDSETUP should search
for SETUP.FD. If the FD environment variable is not set, FDSETUP
will search the current directory for SETUP.FD. It is recommended
that you add SET FD=<path> to your AUTOEXEC.BAT or other startup
file. This allows FDSETUP, and the other FrontDoor programs, to
locate SETUP.FD without having to be in the same directory.
Usage:
SET FD=<PATHSPEC>
Eg. SET FD=C:\FD
4.2 FD.SYS <> SETUP.FD
The system file was previously (FD 1.99c and FD 2.00) called
FD.SYS and some programs may still require it to be present
before they will run (TosScan 1.00 is one example). It is
therefore VERY IMPORTANT that you COPY SETUP.FD to FD.SYS
whenever you have made changes to SETUP.FD by using FDSETUP.
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