Customizing the user environment

MACHINE

Use MACHINE to set the DOS machine name (such as IBM or EDIT_ROOM) of the workstation. The MACHINE command is necessary for some programs (such as NETBIOS) written to run under PC-DOS.

The MACHINE command does not apply to OS/2 workstations.

NOTE: Do not confuse the MACHINE command with the identifier of the same name. The identifier is used with a preceding percent (%) sign in MAP and WRITE statements. The identifier reads its value from the NET.CFG file.

It is unlikely that you will need to use this command. However, it is provided in case you come upon a program that requires it.

MACHINE has the following command format:

MACHINE=name

The machine name can be up to 15 characters. (Longer machine names are truncated to 15 characters.)

For example, to specify that the machine name is IBM_PS2, add the following line to the login script:

   MACHINE=IBM_PS2

For more information about using identifier variables, see ``Identifier variables''.