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- From: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 9 Feb 96 08:44:37 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich) writes:
- >need to want to configure my GUIs at all ?" I understand the concept of
- >ENV:/ENVARC: I understand that window positions are better stored in ENV:
- >But, why the Configs ? Why can't I have a MUI:Env/ for _Use and MUI:Envarc/
- >for _Save ?
-
- Hmm... I'm not sure if this is exactly what you meant to say, but I
- think you've hit upon a good idea (except, perhaps, for floppy-only
- systems):
-
- Currently the Use and Save functionality is provided by copying all of
- envarc: into env: at boot time, and the OS only ever looking for
- environment variables in env:. This means that saving an environment
- to env: ("Use") means it is only used for the current session, and
- saving an environment to envarc: ("Save") means it will be used until
- it is overwritten.
-
- Now, if we could do this:
-
- assign env: ram:env envarc:
-
- during bootup, instead of:
-
- copy envarc: ram:env
- assign env: ram:env
-
- then we could get the same functionality *provided getenv searched
- both ram:env and then envarc:* without having to have a complete copy
- in RAM: *and* without doing the exhaustive copy at bootup.
-
- Unfortunately, getenv won't search for environment variables in
- multiple dirs. :-(
-
- 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).
-
- >Ciao, Andreas
- >Internet: humpty@tomate.tng.oche.de
-
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