B.9 Miscellaneous configuration

The following environment variables can be used to further configure PSPP:

HOME

Used to determine the user's home directory. No default value.

STAT_INCLUDE_PATH

Path used to find include files in PSPP syntax files. Defaults vary across operating systems:

UNIX

• .
• ~/.pspp/include
• /usr/local/lib/pspp/include
• /usr/lib/pspp/include
• /usr/local/share/pspp/include
• /usr/share/pspp/include

MS-DOS

• .
• C:\PSPP\INCLUDE
• $PATH

Other OSes

No default path.

STAT_PAGER

PAGER

When PSPP invokes an external pager, it uses the first of these that is defined. There is a default pager only if the person who compiled PSPP defined one.

TERM

The terminal type termcap or ncurses will use, if such support was compiled into PSPP.

STAT_OUTPUT_INIT_FILE

The basename used to search for the driver definition file. See Output devices. See File locations. Default: devices.

STAT_OUTPUT_PAPERSIZE_FILE

The basename used to search for the papersize file. See papersize. See File locations. Default: papersize.

STAT_OUTPUT_INIT_PATH

The path used to search for the driver definition file and the papersize file. See File locations. Default: the standard configuration path.

TMPDIR

The directory in which PSPP stores its temporary files (used when sorting cases or concatenating large numbers of cases). Default: (UNIX) /tmp, (MS-DOS) \, (other OSes) empty string.

TEMP

TMP

Under MS-DOS only, these variables are consulted after TMPDIR, in this order.