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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: standard paths (Was: Re: MiNT goes UNIX. I hope not. )
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 09:43:27 +0000 (GMT)
- In-Reply-To: <9401180846.AA15380@math.uni-muenster.de> from "Bjarne Pohlers" at Jan 18, 94 09:46:13 am
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- >|>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?
-
- This would itself have to be configurable in a way that "normal" users
- couldn't change as someone may want to run MiNT as a multi-user system
- sometime in the future. (Some day MiNT might actually become secure..
- giggle.)
-
-
- >--
- >Bjarne Pohlers | Institut fuer Numerische und instrumentelle
- ><bjarne@math.uni-muenster.de> | Mathematik (Informatik) der WWU Muenster
- >CREN: BJARNE@DMSWWU1A | Einsteinstrasse 62 | D-48149 Muenster | Germany
- >MAUS: Bjarne Pohlers @ MS2 | Phone: (x49) 251 - 83 37 54
- >
-
- Steve
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