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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.