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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: 13 Dec 1992 21:51:17 -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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- banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- -gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:
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- -- There are some environment variables under RO3.1 which seem to have most
- -- of what is needed. One holds the current filing system name, and there
- -- is one per file system holding its present directory.
- -- What is needed is for someone to work out how to expand one variable
- -- and use it as part of the name for the second one.
- -
- - Easy. Try this :-
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- -Set My$CSD <FileSwitch$<FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>$CSD>
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- - I am fairly sure this works. (Assuming I have the variable names right of
- -course.)
- -
- - Philip
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- I couldn't get this to work. Has anyone else had any luck with it?
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- Michael
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