VARKON Version 1.15 1997-10-16

### VARKON_PRD

Environment variable
Description
Environment variable used by VARKON as default root directory for new projects. Each project is defined by a PID-file located in $VARKON_PID listing different directories to be used within the project. It's good practice to place these directories in a common directory with the same name as the project. For a project named "shafts" this means that directories like job, code, lib, mbs, sym, doc, mdf and so on should be placed in a common directory named shafts and that the shafts directory together with other project directories should be placed in $VARKON_PRD.
It is strongly adviced to gather projects in a common (root) directory outside the directory tree of the VARKON system. Dont use VARKON_ROOT/something for VARKON_PRD. Use $HOME/app or some other directory that is not involved when a new version of VARKON is installed (and an old version removed). See VARKON_PID for the same reason.
Example
If VARKON_PRD is set to $HOME/app this means that job files for the "shafts" project will be placed in $HOME/app/shafts/job.
Comments
If VARKON_PRD is not defined a hard coded default will be used.
The organization of projects and directories suggested above is only a suggestion. Other ways to organize your files may work just as well.

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