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- From: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 11 Feb 96 07:48:07 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich) writes:
- >> Now, if we could do this:
- >>
- >> assign env: ram:env envarc:
- >>
- >> during bootup, instead of:
- >>
- >> copy envarc: ram:env
- >> assign env: ram:env
-
- >Why doing this ? I mean for MUI it could be done by Stefan if he changed
- >the behaviour of handling MUI's prefs:
-
- >makedir MUI: Envarc (or name it Settings)
- >makedir MUI: Env (or name it runtimeSettings)
-
- >If you save your settings for permanent it is stored in MUI:Envarc/
- >Here belong all the configs and windows.
-
- >IN MUI:Env/ you _only_ have the #?.wini files and perhaps some minor stuff.
-
- >muimaster would not search in ENV: but in MUI:Env.
-
- Because (a) I don't think MUI should be using a different scheme for
- saving preferences than the rest of AmigaOS - my solution is more
- general, and (b) env:MUI is only 27kb on my system, while env: is more
- like 170k, so there really wouldn't be much point making it work just
- for MUI.
-
- >> If anyone was willing to patch the required functions to make this
- >> work, I think it would be rather cool. If it was added in a future
- >> version of the OS, people could still use the old way (if they
- >> preferred the speed) simply by using the second bootup option (ie. how
- >> it's done now).
-
- >Why patching the whole system ? Why not making MUI to do that for tis own
- >(20GB ENV:MUI ;-))) dir ?
-
- Again, env:MUI is small on my system. I prefer MUI to stay "standard"
- and for the system to be patched, just as I prefer OpenLibrary() to be
- altered so it looks in PROGDIR: as well as LIBS: and the current dir,
- rather than forcing all programs to look for libraries there
- themselves.
-
- >Ciao, Andreas
- >Internet: humpty@tomate.tng.oche.de
-
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