Initializing Prism

Use the .prisminit file to initialize Prism when you start it up. You can put any Prism commands into this file. When Prism starts, it executes these commands, echoing them in the history region of the command window.

When starting up, Prism first looks in the current directory for a file called .prisminit. If the file is there, Prism uses it. If the file isn't there, Prism looks for it in your home directory. If the file isn't in either place, Prism starts up without executing a .prisminit file.

The .prisminit file is useful if there are commands that you always want to execute when starting Prism. For example,

• If you always want to log command output, put a log command in the file; see Section " Logging Commands and Output".

• If you want to use your own aliases for Prism commands, put the appropriate alias commands in the file; see " Creating Aliases for Commands and Variables".

Note that you don't need to put pushbutton or tearoff commands into the .prisminit file, because changes you make to the tear-off region are automatically saved when you leave Prism; see " Customizing Different Versions of Prism".

In the .prisminit file, Prism interprets lines beginning with # as comments. If \ is the final character on a line, Prism interprets it as a continuation character.