Environment: .casarc

Many CASA options can be set in a .casarc file in the user's home directory.

~/.casarc

# SAMPLE .casarc FILE

# Set these so that bug(), ask(), etc. know who you are
userinfo.name: Sheila User
userinfo.email: suser@nrao.edu
userinfo.org: NRAO


# NOTE: Fill this value in as appropriate - the units are MB
# It is important that you not set this value larger than your actual physical memory
system.resources.memory: 2000
help.popup.type: mb3long


# Catalog
catalog.gui.auto: T
catalog.confirm: T
catalog.view.PostScript: ghostview
catalog.edit.ascii: xterm -e vi


# Logger
logger.file: ./aips++.log
logger.height: 12
logger.default: screen


# Progress meter GUI pop-ups - disable
progress.show: F


# Toolmanager - disable
toolmanager.gui.auto: F


# Use current working directory for cache/scratch files
user.aipsdir: .
user.cache: .
user.directories.work: .
user.initfiles: almainit.g


# Viewer
display.axislabels: on
display.colormaps.defaultcolormap: Hot Metal 1


# Development
ms.async: ddd ./ms %s

# Crash reporter - disable
UseCrashReporter: false