Sets a configuration parameter to a specified value.
SETCONFIG("param", value)
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"param" |
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A string. The name of the configuration parameter to set. |
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value |
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A real, integer or double. The value for the configuration setting. |
A real, integer or string, the previous value of the specified configuration parameter.
setconfig("beep", 0)
turns the beeper off.
setconfig("readt_bufsize", 131072)
sets the line length for READTABLE to 128K characters.
Unlike SETCONF, SETCONFIG does not require the value parameter to be a string.
See the configuration file dadisp.cnf for a list of configuration parameters.
Although SETCONFIG overrides settings contained in the dadisp.cnf configuration file, it does not alter dadisp.cnf in any way. Any changes are saved in the session file, named dadisp.ses or similar.
dadisp.cnf (configuration file)