Preparing the Environment

Before you invoke Animator, set the environment variable TERM to the appropriate value for your terminal.

To enable Animator to search for the required source files and information files in directories other than the current working directory, you must set the following environment variables depending the type of files you need to locate:

• COBAIF - specifies the search path for Animator session files (.aif files).
• COBCPY - specifies the search path for COBOL copy files.
• COBDATA - specifies the search path for data files. If you have set this variable, make sure that the path to the file check.lbr is included in the list of paths.
• COBIDY - specifies the search path for debug information files (.idy files).
• COBPATH - specifies the search path for dynamically loadable .int and .gnt files, or callable shared objects.

See Environment Variables for more details on how to set any of these variables.

You can also use the COBANIMOPT environment variable to specify Compiler directives in effect during animation.