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          <p>
                  The <span class="bold"><strong>dir</strong></span> parameter is a
                  directory to be used as a location for database files.
                  This directory must currently exist at environment open
                  time.
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          <p>
                 When using a Unicode build on Windows (the default), this
                 argument will be interpreted as a UTF-8 string, which is
                 equivalent to AS