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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Variables in startup-sequence without Ados?
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 23:07:25 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- TAOBERLY@news.delphi.com (TAOBERLY@DELPHI.COM) writes:
-
- >Hi, I'm not much of an Amigados programmer, but I'm trying to do a little
- >trick in the beginning of my startup sequence. What I'd like to do is set
- >a variable at the beginning of the script _without_ using the built-in
- >global and local variables. The reason I need this is rather lengthy,
- >but it's partly because I'm also using statram.device, and dismounting the
- >built-in ram disk early in the sequence.
-
- local variables are stored in a per-process memory area and not in the RAM disk.
- global variables are stored in ENV: which is not necessarily the RAM disk.
-
- I suggest that you simply use the local variables.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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