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The Structure of the linktab.ini File

Most linktab files contain only one line, indicating where Softimage is located on both platforms. Here’s a sample linktab file:

c:\Softimage     /usr/Softimage

• The Windows path must come before the Linux path and they must be separated by a tab, not spaces.

• Linux path names are case-sensitive, but Windows paths are not (they are case-insensitive).

• Do not use slashes (\ or /) at the end of the linktab paths.

• If you are using textures or memory-mapped images, you must have entries that point to the directories containing them.

• You can use an exclamation mark to distinguish a mounted volume from the rest of the path. For example, if \\foobar\users\fred (Windows) is equivalent to /home/fred (Linux) and f:\foobar\users is a mounted volume, the line in the linktab file would look like this:

   \\foobar\users!fred     /home/fred

Setting the location of the linktab.ini file

The linktab file must be present on each computer, in the directory specified by the SI_LINKTAB_LOCATION environment variable.

SI_LINKTAB_LOCATION can define both the path and file name or just the path; if no file name is explicitly set, Softimage assumes the name will be linktab.ini.

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