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- From: J.P.OBroin@newcastle.ac.uk (Jason O'Broin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Finding the CSD
- Message-ID: <BzEztn.I2E@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:41:46 GMT
- References: <1gke2bINN2up@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Dec16.124633.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
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- In article <1992Dec16.124633.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>, banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >In article <1gke2bINN2up@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk>, mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Y Ben Gershon) writes:
- >> dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe) writes:
- >[bits deleted]
- >> -Set FS <FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>
- >> -SetEval CSD "<FS>:"+FileSwitch$<FS>$CSD
- >>
- >> I am sorry to disappoint you, but this does not work either! It remains
- >> constant and is not altered when the csd is changed.
- >
- > Of course it doesn't. It is not a code variable. To do what you want
- >would reqire writing some short assembler. This approach is designed to
- >allow you to find out the CSD at a *particular point in time*. This is
- >useful for Obey scripts that need to know the CSD or whatever but is by no
- >means intended to be a continually updating CSD variable.
- >
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- Would it not be possible to create a macro variable which did an eval as above?
- I don't have access to a machine at the moment, so I can't play with the idea.
-
- Jason
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