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From: hurtta@dionysos.fmi.fi (Kari E. Hurtta)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Receiving files "automatically"
Date: 10 Nov 1994 14:21:45 GMT
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jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman) writes:
;> DOS ain't Unix, in case you haven't discovered that yet. Unix
;> won't necessarily find files either unless the PATH is used or the
;> program is built to look in its startup directory.
;>
;>You just compile the correct directory into the executable. It works
;>quite reliably.
;Are you saying hard code a specific directory name into an executable?
;This is nuts. Where do you keep your MS-DOS Kermit?
;C:\KERMIT
;D:\KERMIT
;F:\MSK
;C:\BIN\COMM\MSK
;how are we supposed to know where you keep your files?
I have impression, that in MS-DOS 3 (or was it 3.2?) or newer full path from
where program was started is accessible to program.
;Then there is the second case, I know where the exe files are but
;where are the initialization files. Many people use separate directories
Yes. This is another case, perhaps some environment variable is good
in this case.
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- Kari E. Hurtta / Eldmd on monimutkaista
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