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- From: mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Y Ben Gershon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Finding the CSD
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 11:03:39 -0000
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- Sender: mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk (Michael Ben-Gershon)
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- dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe) writes:
- -banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz wrote:
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- --Set My$CSD <FileSwitch$<FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>$CSD>
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- -mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Y Ben Gershon) replied:
- -
- --I couldn't get this to work. Has anyone else had any luck with it?
- -
- --Nope. Nesting the variables doesn't work.
- -
- -Funnily enough, I've just done this. After my success doing it under
- -RISC OS 2, doing it under RO3 was just too easy (though still not as
- -easy as you would expect). From memory:
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- -Set FS <FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>
- -SetEval CSD "<FS>:"+FileSwitch$<FS>$CSD
- -
- -The first command is only necessary to make the second one fit on one
- -line! Who knows, maybe by RISC OS 4 they'll have got it down to one,
- -easy to swallow, variable. :-)
- -
- -Anyone know a simpler way?
- ---
- -Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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- I am sorry to disappoint you, but this does not work either! It remains
- constant and is not altered when the csd is changed.
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- Michael Ben-Gershon
- mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk
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