Settings like this are guaranteed to cause problems. Evrything else is black on white. Evrything else is black on white. The routine mappath performs a pattern substitution to derive a canonical pathname. Some Antelope software uses perl, a freely available and popular scripting language.
Some programs require input from a parameter file.
This is the name of the default schema to use when no descriptor file is present. These files define the database schema used by the db library routines, and are required to run most programs, including dblook and dbpick. The files are unlinked as soon as they are created, and so you may never see the files. The space the files occupy is reclaimed when the program exits.