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- From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Finding the CSD
- Date: 18 Dec 92 13:57:55
- Organization: Computing Department, Imperial College, London, UK
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- In-reply-to: mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk's message of 15 Dec 1992 11:03:39
-
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
-
- >Set FS <FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>
- >SetEval CSD "<FS>:"+FileSwitch$<FS>$CSD
-
- In article <1gke2bINN2up@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk> mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Y Ben
- Gershon) wrote:
-
- >I am sorry to disappoint you, but this does not work either! It
- >remains constant and is not altered when the csd is changed.
-
- Some people are never satisfied. :-) As Jason
- <J.P.OBroin@newcastle.ac.uk> noted, to get that effect you'd need to
- use SetMacro but I'm not sure even that would work, you might need
- SetMacroEval, which doesn't exist! Philip
- <banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> was nearer the mark saying you need a
- code variable but this week's star prize goes to Good Ol' Owen "Who
- put the OS in RISC OS?" Smith or, as his friends call him,
- /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk,
- who mailed in response to my RISC OS 2 solution:
-
- >On RISC OS 3 (no snide remarks please I'm just being helpful) you can
- >do it as an OS_FSControl 37 (canonicalise name) of "@", or you can
- >build it up piecemeal using the various FileSwitch$* system
- >variables.
-
- The only time I want to know the CSD is in my desktop !Boot file so I
- can make everything independent of the location of the root directory.
- Here, my "static" solution is quite acceptable.
- --
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs. You're fired!
-