As mentioned above, there are two ways to specify commands to execute. You can place them in an .ini file, one per line, or you can specify them directly in pconfig.src.
Commands are handed to the operating system's command shell (i.e. command.com or cmd.exe under Microsoft operating systems, /bin/sh on Unix), one by one. Therefore, fancy things such as multi-line commands or goto are not permitted.
The following symbols are handled specially:
- %section
- ► In an .ini file, specifies a section boundary. If a section was specified in pconfig.src, execution starts or ends here.
- # anything
- ► In an .ini file, lines starting with a number sign are comments and are ignored.
- %d
- ►
(4.0k) In a command, this symbol is replaced by the game directory name (first directory parameter specified in PHost invocation). For example, Combat = Replace *flak-server %d will run the add-on flak-server with the current game directory as a parameter. PHost automatically suppresses duplicate directory delimiters if you use this to construct file names. Note that, in an .ini file, this symbol cannot be first in a command, to avoid confusing it with a section delimiter.
- %r
- ►
(4.0k) In a command, this symbol is replaced by the root directory name (second directory parameter specified in PHost invocation). Everything said for %d applies here, too.
- %%
- ►
(4.0k) Produces a literal percent sign.
