startup

startup files

Description

The startup files SCIHOME/.scilab or SCIHOME/scilab.ini are automatically executed (if present) when Scilab is invoked, in addition with the file SCI/etc/scilab.start.

Remarks

Last line of startup file must be terminated by a newline to be taken into account.

See Also

• scilab Main script to start Scilab and miscellaneous tools (GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X)
• SCIHOME contains the path to preferences, history files of your Scilab session.
• SCI variable containing the value of the root path of Scilab.
• TMPDIR temporary directory path.