What environment variables does Stata recognize?

• HOME — User's home directory. Default is the directory specified in /etc/passwd.
• PATH — Unix executable search path.
• SHELL — to execute when user tries to shell out of Stata. Default is /bin/sh.
• S_ADO — Stata’s ado-path. Default is UPDATES;BASE;SITE;.;PERSONAL;PLUS;OLDPLACE (mapping of these keywords to real directories can be seen by typing sysdir in Stata)
• STATATERM — used if you want to use a different termcap or terminfo entry than what is in your TERM environment variable.
• STATATMP — sets Stata’s temporary directory. Default is /tmp.