SETCONF

Purpose:

Sets a configuration parameter to a specified value as a string.

SETCONF("param", "value")

"param"	-	A string. The name of the configuration parameter to set.
"value"	-	A string. The value for the configuration setting.

A string, the value to which the specified parameter was set.

setconf("beep", "0")

turns the beeper off.

setconf("readt_bufsize", caststring(131072))

sets the line length for READTABLE to 128K characters.

The value parameter must be a string even if the actual parameter is numeric. See CASTSTRING to convert a value to a string.

See SETCONFIG for a similar function that accepts a numeric for the value parameter.

See the configuration file dadisp.cnf for a list of configuration parameters.

Although SETCONF overrides settings contained in the dadisp.cnf configuration file, it does not alter dadisp.cnf in any way.