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- From: Hσvard Pedersen <havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Please insert Volume PROGDIR: in any Drive
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:58:34 -0700
- Organization: HIT
- Message-ID: <3177FE7A.249@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no>
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- Kenneth C. Nilsen wrote:
- > The 18-Apr-96 11:20:20, Trevor & Anne Simmonds wrote in msg n/a :
- > >PROGDIR should be assigned to the directory that the calling program
- > >resides in by OS.
- >
- > >I have got around this to a degree by putting Assign PROGDIR: T: in my
- > >user-startup but this only works when the Program has an additional path
- > >to look for the file it is after.
- >
- > You should not assign PROGDIR: anywhere. The Progdir: is used from your
- > program and it keeps the path to the directory where you started your
- > program from. The OS handle this by itself.
-
- AFAIK this is a new feature of OS2.0 (or was it 3.0?), so under certain
- kickstart versions, this might not be true. However, programs shouldn't look
- for PROGDIR: if there are reasons to believe it doesn't exsist. (KS version
- should be checked.)
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