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- From: Nick Christie <nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: SystemTagList()
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 16:55:30 GMT
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- jcorig@strauss.udel.edu (John Pat Corigliano) wrote:
- >I am using SystemTagList() to launch other programs and having trouble
- >determining the system path (the one set by the user).[...]
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- Have a look in the source for ToolManager:
- aminet://util/boot/ToolManager21s.lha
- It's very instructional and includes code to copy the system
- path, append further directories, and then use the combined
- path in a System() call.
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- >Also, I Lock() a directory for the NP_CurrentDir [...]
- >Does the spawned process free this lock?
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- Yes, I think so, but I don't have all the docs here to be sure.
- Check in the dos header files - I think there's a comment
- next/near to the definition of NP_CurrentDir.
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- Nick
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