Eagle customization - environment section settings

Eagle Main Environment Initialization

In this section we define the main environment variables used by Eagle pointing to the directories where the Eagle tree and the configuration files reside.

Configuration File Entries

	ENVCHAR
Values	an ASCII character
Description	Character to use for preceding environment variable settings
Default	-
Example	ENVCHAR=-

	PATH_SEPARATOR
Values	OLD \| NEW
Description	The PATH_SEPARATOR defines the separator. When set to NEW, the pathname separator can be either the "/" or "\" . The parent directory can be specified as "../" or "..\" and <drive>: can be added to the pathname to specify the volume. When PATH_SEPARATOR is set to OLD , pathnames should be specified in the form //c/users/demo/data.dat
Default	NEW
Example	PATHSEPARATOR=NEW Pathnames: c:\users\demo\data.dat c:/users/demo/data.dat Parent directory: ..\ ../ PATHSEPARATOR=OLD Pathnames: //c/users/demo/data.dat (default) Parent directory: \

	EAGLE_PATH
Values	A directory path
Description	A directory location defined at installation time where the location of the Eagle programs file are located. Typically the default location as defined as a subdirectory of the location defined by the system variable %PROGRAMFILES%
Default	C:\Program Files\Macrovision\EagleCDS
Example	EAGLEPATH=C:\Program Files\Macrovision\EagleCDS

	EAGLEPATH
Values	A directory path
Description	A directory location on defined at installation time where the Eagle configuration application settings are stored. This directory will typically be defined as a subdirectory of %CommonAppsDataFolder% or a user specified installation location. It is important that the chosen directories should have appropriate R/W permissions for all users need to access and configure the data files and avoid virtualization problems.
Default	Operating system dependent
Example	EAGLEPATH=C:\ProgramData\Macrovision\EagleCDS

	USER_NAME
Values	A string
Description	A text string containing the User name written by installation
Default	None
Example	USER_NAME=John Adams

	USER_ORGANISATION
Values	A string
Description	A text string containing the User name taken at installation or Registry
Default	None
Example	USER_ORGANISATION=Congress Corp

	NTVERSION
Values	500 \| 501 \| 502 \| 600 \| 601
Description	A number written by installation which represents the current major Windows version where Windows 2000 NTVERSION=500, Windows XP NTVERSION=501, Windows 2003 NTVERSION=502, Windows Vista or Server 2008 R1 NTVERSION=600, Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 NTVERSION=601
Default	None
Example	NTVERSION=601

	NTBUILD
Values	A number
Description	A number written by installation which represents the current Windows build
Default	None
Example	NTBUILD=2600

	NTSPACK
Values	A number
Description	A number written by installation which represents the current Windows service pack
Default	None
Example	NTSPACK=2

	SYSTEM_VARIABLES
Values	YES \| NO
Description	Defines the precedence for searching for environment variables either from the INI file or from amongst System Variables. Set to SYSTEM_VARIABLES=NO searches the INI before searching the environment variables or SYSTEM_VARIABLES=yes, the original behaviour.
Default	YES
Example	SYSTEM_VARIABLES=YES