12.2 Initialization

Although some aspects of FWEB’s behavior are hard-coded, many can be changed and/or initialized by the user.

12.2.1 The initialization file

On startup, FWEB attempts to read an initialization file. This always resides in the user’s home directory. It is usually called .fweb (fweb.ini on personal computers). The default file name can be overridden by the environment variable FWEB_INI.

One may put into .fweb any option that might be used as a command-line option. (Presently, there must be just one entry per line.) If the option begins with a ‘-’ (or a ‘+’ for backward compatibility), it is processed before the actual command-line options; if it begins with ‘&’ or is a file name, it is processed after. Generally, .fweb options should begin with ‘-’ so that one may override them from the command line. The ‘%’ sign begins a comment terminated by the end-of-line.