| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 29 Jan 2000 at 04:40:37 |
| Subject: | Re: Memory usage (ENV:) |
From: Colin Wenzel <colstv@hotkey.net.au>
On 29-Jan-00, Adam Szymczak wrote:
> From: Adam Szymczak <adam.szymczak@utoronto.ca>
> On 28-Jan-00, Colin Wenzel wrote:
>
>> What bright spark decided it was a good idea to copy the
>> damn lot to ram: on every reboot ???
>
> Keep in mind that ENVARC was not originally intended to be the
> dumping ground for the prefs/settings files of various 3rd party
> software. Fortunately, we have HappyENV, which loads files into ENV
> only when they are called by a program.
>
>> H&P, why don't you just allow ENV: to be assigned to ENVARC:
>> by default, & only copy & re-assign it, if you want to....
>
> Because of the difference between SAVE and USE in the various pref
> tools. Clicking on SAVE saves the settings in both ENV and ENVARC.
> Clicking on USE saves a copy in ENV, leaving the ENVARC copy
> untouched.
All these years of coding on the Amiga,
I have never seen a single "style guide" or reference
to the private usage of ENV & ENVARC.
So considering that I was unaware that *until today*,
software still "SAVE" when you actually select "USE",
it just depended on where....
I ran snoopdos to confirm this action & you are right,
at least for the printer preferences. (that I tried)
There was never any documentation released for
applications to use ENV etc... for their own private usage.
At least in all the books I have.
That's probably why I have 130K of garbage in there.
It would have been better if they used their current dir,
that way, the crap goes when the program does..
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