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- From: mh1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- Subject: Re: Standardized paths
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:35:16 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <9401111334.AA06670@math.uni-muenster.de> from "Julian Reschke" at Jan 11, 94 02:33:59 pm
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- > Speaking of standardizing paths: is there a convention how to locate
- > files that are supposed to live in /etc (like /etc/magic)?
- >
- > Currently, I try u:\etc and $ETCDIR...
-
- In UNIXMODE, "rX" tells you that X:\ is the root directory. In the MiNT
- library, "extern char _rootdir" contains the device letter of the root
- directory, which is taken from UNIXMODE and defaults to 'u' under MiNT
- (if U: was the current drive when the program was startet).
-
- Michael
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