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Customising Your Settings

Many of the Premvet settings are handled by the file params.txt.

In addition to the master file, there are two other optional 'params.txt' type files that can be used, all these files have the same format. The system will check them in the following order:

params.local
params.txt
params.USER-ID

That is, an entry in params.local will be over-ridden by one in params.txt. You should make sure entries appear in the appropriate files.

With the last one params.USER-ID, this file should live in the folder 'miscdir', and the 'USER-ID' will be replaced with the user id of the user IN LOWERCASE. For example, if the user id is set to TWM then the file will be miscdir/params.twm.

So for user specific settings add them to params.USER-ID, general settings to params.txt and site specific ones to params.local.

params.local will NOT cross update, it will not be copied to play areas and the likes. This is aimed at site specific settings.

Note: It can be tempting to enter every setting in multiple files - don't. This can give problems with the order they are entered in, also, the system is reading these files on a frequent basis - while machines are getting faster and faster they is an overhead involved. Keep the settings to a minimum - don't specify the default!!