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- From: Bjarne Pohlers <bjarne@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: standard paths (Was: Re: MiNT goes UNIX. I hope not. )
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 09:46:13 +0100
-
- |>In <199401171650.AA21237@ruulot.let.ruu.nl>, Annius Goenink wrote:
- |>
- |>The current mechanism, looking for an enironment variable first and use a
- |>hardcoded path if it ain't there, is not to bad. Only the way in which to
- |>decide what the builtin path must look like should be standardised, at the
- |>moment it's a bit chaotic, to say the least.
- |>
- There is a third way: in my setup I have a file `c:\etc\host.cnf'
- (yes, the name is currently fixed, but as it is the only fixed name it
- could be easily changed by a utility like fixstk). In c:\etc\host.cnf
- there are entries like
- ETCDIR=/dev/u/etc
- LIBDIR=/dev/u/usr/lib
- HOSTNAME=<Guess>
- etc.
-
- For special programs one could add a line
- PROGRAMNAME_CNF=<location of program special-.cnf file>
- in which setups can be done which affect only one program
-
- c:\etc\host.cnf and the program.cnf-file could be set up by
- install-scripts or programs.
-
- Some of my programs use this feature already and it works quite fine.
-
-
- Any comments?
- --
- Bjarne Pohlers | Institut fuer Numerische und instrumentelle
- <bjarne@math.uni-muenster.de> | Mathematik (Informatik) der WWU Muenster
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