crafty not reading .craftyrc when started from another folder

[EJFuchs]

I have copied the crafty programs to their own folder in ~/bin. If I start the program from that folder, the .craftyrc file is read, however, if I start crafty from Xboard or from the terminal in another folder, the .craftyrc is not read. I am using macOS Big Sur, and have edited the .zshrc file to include the appropriate export CRAFTY_RC_PATH.

Do I need to include the folder in the path?

[MichaelB7]

It works in Windows, I just tested it. ->System Properties->Environment Variables Can you share your CRAFTY_RC_PATH? Obviously, xboard will need to be restarted and the variables sourced.

For my test , I set xboard to one thread and then added smpmt=60 to a crafty.rc located at "c:"
and added this to EV
CRAFTY_RC_PATH=C:\
and crafty started with 60 threads