[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Add startup option to ignore startup.pf

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startup.pf is created during OpenEdge installation and contains the I18N choices made duing setup. It can be used to further tailor the installation (e.g. -T /tmp ). Some scripts are written with American settings in mind and fail to run with e.g. European settings. It is impossible, or at least very hard, for a script to add parameters to revert all changes that were made in startup.pf. This could be handled by a single -ignoreStartupPf parameter. The script would then have total control over all parameters used by the session. Scripts that fail include Roundtable installation OpenEdge source pbuild Parameters that cause these to fail include -numsep -numdec -cpstream -T (some scripts expect this to be the current directory instead of a temp directory)

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