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Msged has to know where to find its primary configuration file and the character set translation files. You must tell this at compile time (the location of all other configuration files can then be configured in the primary configuration file). The following paths are selected per default:
What file DOS/WIN/OS2 UNIX ========================================================= Configuration file msged.cfg ~/.msged Charset Input Map readmaps.dat ~/.msged.readmaps Charset Output Map writmaps.dat ~/.msged.writmaps
These path’s will be different if you compile via huskymak.cfg.
On Non-Unix systems, you normally do not need to change the default (which is finding everything in the current directoy). On Unix, you might want to change the locations if you are administrator and want to provide a system-wide default configuration (that can then include files in the user home directory if necessary). You can do this by redefining variables in the Makefile. Just have a look at the first three lines of makefile.unx to see how it works.