| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 1 Feb 2000 at 14:36:56 |
| Subject: | Re: Memory usage (ENV:) |
From: Colin Wenzel <colstv@hotkey.net.au>
On 02-Feb-00, Kolbj�rn Barmen wrote:
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kolbj=F8rn_Barmen?= <kolla@nvg.ntnu.no>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Colin Wenzel wrote:
>> From: Colin Wenzel <colstv@hotkey.net.au>
>> On 01-Feb-00, Kolbj�rn Barmen wrote:
>>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kolbj=F8rn_Barmen?= <kolla@nvg.ntnu.no>
>>> On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Colin Wenzel wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Obviously you dont have the OS manuals then.
>>>
>> I have ALL the ROM Kernal manuals from 1.3 & 2.x
>> but no more were printed since them.
>>
>>>> It would have been better if they used their current dir,
>>>> that way, the crap goes when the program does..
>>>
>>> Nah. I prefer env:/envarc: because then I know where to look.
>>> -- kolla
>>
>> What's wrong with looking in PROGDIR:
>> I'm sure you know where that is ?
>
> Depends on application.
> Where is progdir: for a library used by a program?
> Do you want to configure this lib once and for all, or do you want to
> configure it a dozen of times, one for each app that uses it?
>
> What do you expect your sys:prefs to look like?
>
> -- kolla
>
All libraries I know of, require arguments parsed to them
by the calling process, they themselves don't have prefs...
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