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- Subject: Re: Word Hound version 1.10
- Message-ID: <2A2n4Xj017n@bridge.welly.gen.nz>
- From: julian@bridge.welly.gen.nz (Julian Wright)
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:11:54 +1200
- Reply-To: wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Julian Wright)
- References: <713548403snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> <1992Aug11.113212.18614@doc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Aug11.115304.20461@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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- ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
-
- > I've just had a thought. Were paths available under RO2, ie can you
- > set a variable (eg. WordHound$Path) and then do things like
- > WordHound:-whatever- ?????
-
- Well the cause of the specific problem has already been ascertained,
- but to answer your query... yes and no.
-
- Yes paths are available in that form under RISC OS 2, but only for
- loading/reading from that path. If you tried to write/save to a path
- your file instead gets placed in the CSD. Under RISC OS 3 this has
- been corrected so that saving to a path will cause the file to be saved
- with the first element of the path for which a save operation is possible.
-
- I tried it out with various combinations of read-only vs read-write
- path segments. I did not try it with a writable segment first, which
- doesn't have enough free space for the file, or for which a locked
- file of the same leafname already exists though.
-
- Cheers, Julian
-
-