REDUCE startup ﬁle
Date: 2020-10-07 18:10:00

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### 12.4 REDUCE startup ﬁle

At the start of a REDUCE session, the system checks for the existence of a user’s startup ﬁle, and executes the REDUCE statements in it. This is equivalent to inputting the ﬁle with the IN command.

To ﬁnd the directory/folder where the ﬁle resides, the system checks the existence of the following environment variables:

1. HOME,
2. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH together (Windows).

If none of these are set, the current directory is used. The ﬁle itself must be named either .reducerc or reduce.rc1 .

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