The "~e852/bin/e852arch.sh" is available to determine the machine type. It prints the machine type on the standard output, for example, on an SGI machine it prints "mips-irix", on Linux ir prints "i86-linux", etc...
This machine type is used to setup the PATH env.variable and the E852_MAKETARGET variable.
~e852/bin.`sh ~e852/bin/e852arch.sh`