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• If you need a config file, load it with do.

• This gives you full Perl power.

      # from PCB 8.16
      $APPDFLT = "/usr/local/share/myprog";
      do "$APPDFLT/sysconfig.pl";
      do "$ENV{HOME}/.myprogrc";
  
      #in config file
      $NETMASK = '255.255.255.0';
      $MTU     = 0x128;
      $DEVICE  = 'cua1';
      $RATE    = 115_200;
  

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