Specifies a list of paths within which to find initialization files. Multiple paths can be specified by separating them with semicolons.

The default is .;ini (that is, search in the current directory first, and then in the directory ini in the same directory as the MESS executable).

The SDL verion of MESS prepends to the above mentioned directories the path $HOME/.mess (that is, search in the hidden directory .mess which is located in the home directory of the current user).

mess -inipath <path>