dot.conf feature descriptions
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Builtin Commands
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dot.conf natively has the ability to 'Include' additional configuration
files that can be found

- relative to a path pointed to by the DC_INCLUDEPATH environment variable if
  it is set.
- relative to a path which can be set using the includepath command in a
  configuration file.
- at a fully qualified position (starting with a / )
- Relative to the directory containing the configuration file.

Note that if the name of the configuration file contains no directory
components, and none of the above cases apply, included files are relative
to the current working directory.

Use the Include command in your configuration file to include another file,
and use the IncludePath command to specify the directory from which
included files are taken. Note that if the user sets DC_INCLUDEPATH in the
environment, this setting will override the includepath setting.

Here Documents
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dot.conf also supports so-called 'here-documents' as known from
the shell or from PERL. this feature can be used for ARG_STR type
options. a here-document is initiated by <<DELIMITER and finished by
DELIMITER itself on a line. The last newline is stripped of the
resulting string.

Environment variable Substitution
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dot.conf supports substitution of environment variables.  For example,
suppose that you have an entry in your configuration file like this one.

UserDir directories/${USER}

The environment variable $USER will be expanded when the configuration
file is parsed.

dot.conf also allows default substitutions, if the
environment variable is not set.
For example, consider the following fragment of a configuration file.

TempDirectory ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}

If the environment variable $TMPDIR is set, then TempDirectory contains the
value of $TMPDIR.  Otherwise, it contains the string /tmp.
Note that environment variables are not substituted in here documents.