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Whenever you reference a pathname that does not begin with a
/
or a
$
,
FMLI will check the alias file.
For example:
MYTEXT=$HOME/myfiles/mytextwould allow the developer to refer to the text file Text.file in the directory $HOME/myfiles/mytext as MYTEXT/Text.file.
The alias may also contain the name of the file or device, for example,
MYTEXT1=$HOME/myfiles/mytext/Text.filebut frame definition filenames assigned to an alias must conform to the same naming convention as filenames on the invocation line.
More than one possible path may be assigned to a single alias by separating each path with a colon (:). For example:
MYFILES=$HOME/myfiles:$HOME/test/myfileswould search
$HOME/myfiles
first, and if the file is not found search
$HOME/test/myfiles
whenever the alias
$MYFILES
is used.
This is similar to the way
$PATH
is searched in the UNIX system.