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>3.2. Environment variables used by Hugs</A
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>Hugs also consults a number of environment variables
on systems that support them.
The method for setting these varies with the system.</P
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><A
NAME="EMACS"
></A
><CODE
CLASS="ENVAR"
>EMACS</CODE
></DT
><DD
><P
>(Windows only)
If this variable is set, Hugs is assumed to be running in an Emacs subshell
(with different line termination conventions on input).</P
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><DT
><A
NAME="HOME"
></A
><CODE
CLASS="ENVAR"
>HOME</CODE
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><P
>The user's home directory.
This is substituted for <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>{Home}</TT
> in the argument of the
<A
HREF="options.html#OPTION-SEARCH-PATH"
><CODE
CLASS="OPTION"
>-P</CODE
></A
> option
(see <A
HREF="options.html#OPTIONS-LOADING"
>Section 3.1.2</A
>),
and for <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>~</TT
>"</SPAN
> in the argument of the
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>:cd</B
> command
(see <A
HREF="misc-commands.html"
>Section 2.4</A
>).</P
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><A
NAME="HUGSFLAGS"
></A
><CODE
CLASS="ENVAR"
>HUGSFLAGS</CODE
></DT
><DD
><P
>Additional options for Hugs, processed before any given on the command line
(see <A
HREF="options.html#OPTIONS-LIST"
>Section 3.1</A
>).
The following example assumes a shell compatible with the Unix Bourne shell:
<PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>HUGSFLAGS='+k -E"vi +%d"'
export HUGSFLAGS</PRE
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><A
NAME="HUGSDIR"
></A
><CODE
CLASS="ENVAR"
>HUGSDIR</CODE
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><DD
><P
>The Hugs library directory.
This is substituted for <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>{Hugs}</TT
> in the argument of the
<A
HREF="options.html#OPTION-SEARCH-PATH"
><CODE
CLASS="OPTION"
>-P</CODE
></A
> option
(see <A
HREF="options.html#OPTIONS-LOADING"
>Section 3.1.2</A
>).
This directory should also contain an <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>include</TT
>
subdirectory, which <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ffihugs</B
> will search for include
files, particularly <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>HsFFI.h</TT
>
(see <A
HREF="ffihugs.html"
>Section 4.2</A
>).</P
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><DT
><A
NAME="IGNORE-USER-REGISTRY"
></A
><CODE
CLASS="ENVAR"
>IGNORE_USER_REGISTRY</CODE
></DT
><DD
><P
>(Windows only)
If this variable is set, options are not read from the user portion of the
Registry (see <A
HREF="options.html#OPTIONS-LIST"
>Section 3.1</A
>).
You might use this to recover if your registry settings get messed up
somehow.</P
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><DT
><A
NAME="LCCTYPE"
></A
><CODE
CLASS="ENVAR"
>LC_CTYPE</CODE
></DT
><DD
><P
>The locale used for external representation of Haskell <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Char</TT
>
values
(see <A
HREF="locale.html"
>Section 3.3</A
>).</P
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><A
NAME="SHELL"
></A
><CODE
CLASS="ENVAR"
>SHELL</CODE
></DT
><DD
><P
>The shell that is invoked by the <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>:!</B
> command
(see <A
HREF="misc-commands.html"
>Section 2.4</A
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