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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST?
- Date: 12 Mar 96 22:49:23 +0500
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- AM> cs2lk@scms.rgu.ac.uk wrote about "Re: Want to boot FAAAST?" on
- AM> "08-Mar-1996
- AM> 09:07:34" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
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- >> What is wrong with simply copying ENVARC: to, say, SYS:env and
- >> assigning ENV: to there?
-
- AM> There are tools that set up $TIME, $DATE every second. Sounds
- AM> quite funny, when ENV: is on your drive. Besides that, ENV: on hd
- AM> simply sucks !
-
- AM> And programmers suck, which store every bull**** in ENV:.
- AM> S: would be perfect for more than the half of all my ENV: stuff.
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- AM> Every file >500 bytes does not belong to ENV: Okay, let's give it
- AM> a 1000 bytes. But not more !
-
- AM> --
- AM> Ciao, Andreas
- AM> Internet: humpty@tomate.tng.oche.de
- AM> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
- AM> =+=+=+=+=+
-
- Frankly, I'd make the limit for stuffs in the ENV: dir at one 70
- character line. A kilobyte? Good grief!
-
- Yes, I'm one of those with a 200k ENV:. To borrow JoAnn Dows
- expression, that sucks dead toads thru soda straws! One of these
- days I'm gonna rename the hard drive dir, reboot, and see what pukes.
-
- I have to agree, programmers please note: Your use of the ENV:
- variables has gotten out of hand. If you only need it once at
- startup, put it in s: or even in PROGDIR:. I dare say thats the case
- for 99% of whats in my ENV: right now. Some programs do search other
- paths if its not in ENV:, IMO ALL should search ENV:, PROGDIR:, and
- S: in that order for their configuration information.
-
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