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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Digested
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 23:24:48 -0600
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- Hello Evan,
-
- >Hmm .. I don't think a full path is needed. Applications shouldn't
- >change from the working directory so making things relative to that
- >shouldn't be too hard. For global settings you either use the full
- >path, or if you want to access a different file for each application
- >with one global setting, then make it relative.
-
- No, please! :) I have had so many problems dealing with relative
- pathnames it makes me sick. It is no trouble at all to use absolute
- paths, and it would really make life easier. (At least it would make my
- life easier.) Besides, applications do switch paths sometimes.
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