eternal

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• Jun 21st, 2006

 

Environemental variables server as global variables in unix envrionment. They are used for passing on values from a shell/ process to another.

They are inherited by Abinitio as sandbox variables/ graph parameters like

AI_SORT_MAX_CORE

AI_HOME

AI_SERIAL

AI_MFS etc.

To know what all variables exist, in your unix shell, find out the naming convention and type a command like "env | grep AI". This will provide you a list of all the variables set in the shell. You can refer to the graph parameters/ components to see how these variables are used inside Abinitio.