OPTIONS

OPTIONS=option{,option}{,option}...

The OPTIONS command is used to set various options that don’t fall neatly into another category. You can specify several options on a single line separated by commas, or you can specify them using multiple OPTIONS statements.

Options

Description

ABSLOOKUP

Causes LOOKUP to return a positive value.

AMOS_RUNSBR

Causes XCALL AMOS to execute commands as true subroutines.

AS400

Special AS400 TELNET option.

AUTO_MEMOPEN

Causes OPEN to see if file is already in memory.

AUTOTPRINT

Causes PRINT statements to act like TPRINT (i.e., create static text controls).

BRKALC

Pre-fill random files with ]]]]]]].

CRLF

Terminate sequential files with CRLF.

CRNL

Same as CRLF.

RC_DIMX

Tells the compiler to allow DIMX statement in /RC mode.

EFFUSR

Returns "effective user name."

EFS

Various options related to "EFS," A-Shell's encrypted file system

EXITWAIT

Wait for keyboard response.

EXTFIO

Allows access to contiguous files that are NOT a multiple of 512 bytes.

FIELDEMU

Emulate field terminal attributes.

FPROUND

Apply rounding factor of .000005 to INT and FIX.

GUI_SPC_IND

Tokenizes horizontal fixed-pitch spacing for use in variable-spacing GUI screens

HEXDEC

Special hexadecade date processing.

ISAM_IDXLOK

Locks entire ISAM index file.

LATIN1

Remap OEM character set to Latin1.

LONGDIR

Causes DIR.LIT to use the 10.3 format by default

NOAUTOX

Disables auto expansion of ISAM & INMEMO files (same as NOISAM_AUTOX).

NOAUTOXLT

Disables automatic translation of PageUp and PageDn.

NOFLDATTR

Discards field attributes.

NOISAM_AUTOX

Disables auto expansion of ISAM and INMEMO files; same as NOAUTOX.

NOJOBMAP

Presents JOBTBL.SYS from being memory mapped.

NOSPACEATTR

Eliminates the automatic space associated with the on/off field attributes.

NOWHEEL

Disables the otherwise automatic conversion of the mouse wheel events into Up/DownArrow key presses.

NOXABORT

Prevents user from closing window containing an active program.

NTTS

Identifies A-Shell instances like NT Terminal Server sessions.

RAWTABS

Output raw tab characters.

SBX_RUNDIR

Alters the search path for SBX modules.

SEQLOK

Enables locking on sequential files for UNIX.

STRICT

Causes A-Shell to emulate various AMOS functions.

TRKTOPSTS

Causes PolyShell to treat the top status line as part of the screen.

XABORT

Generates error 255 when user tries to close window if program running.