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Multi-terminal definitions are stored individually for each workstation in the local workstation directory.

 

The name of the file in which the definitions are stored is MPLINT.DBF, which suggests that it is a database file. The appearance is however deceiving. MPLINT.DBF is actually a text file where the information is coded in lisp format.

 

The MPLINT.DBF may be manually copied from one workstation to another.

 

It is also possible to manually merge several MPLINT.DBF's. That is because the format on a high level is trivial with each line in the text file containing one multi-terminal definition. Please note however, that the lines may be quite long.

 

Alias definitions are project related and therefore stored in the SOURCE directory of the current project. To maintain a reasonable amount of confusion, the name of the file in which the alias definitions are stored is identical with the name of the file in which the multi-terminal definitions themselves are found (MPLINT.DBF). In the same way, this is a text file, but the file extension is still DBF, which is yet another means of preventing the level of confusion from reaching dangerously low levels.