Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!leah!wfh58 From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Advantages of keeping binaries out of S: Summary: Try an environmental variable Message-ID: <2157@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 13 Nov 89 17:53:49 GMT References: <3770@nigel.udel.EDU> <0ZKoagy00UkaFnd_R7@andrew.cmu.edu>, Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY Lines: 31 In article , bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: > . . . > > :: >Selecting "user-supplied" would read the IFF 8SVX file "S:BeepSound" > > :: >and use it as the beep. > > :: No, no, no! Keep S: for scripts. Put it in DEVS:BeepSound. -- Darren > > : > > : Why is a sound-sample any more appropiate in "devs:" (devices) than in > > : "s:"??????? > > > > If you have ever done anything like "search S: mount" or "grep mount s:*", > > you can see the advantage of not putting binary files in a directory > . . . > I'm not arguing for putting a beep in S:, I'm arguing AGAINST putting it in > devs:, which has a clear purpose. Make up a new standard place, like "lib:" > or something, for keeping misc data. *** I think "lib:" is already spoken for. But I don't like that approach. "devs:printers", "devs:keymaps" are things we already have, and "devs:sounds" would be OK for those with BIG HARD DRIVES. But please have mercy on those among us who do not have hard drives. How about an environmental variable "beepsound_0" that contains the name of the sound file? (Shall we start a fight about which kind of environmental variable? If so, I would argue for the kind that has minimum memory overhead when it is assumed that "ENV:" lives in "ram:".) If the variable is unset or set to the empty string, the user would get a display beep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics 518-442-4625 SUNYA wfh58@leah.albany.edu Albany, NY 12222 -------------------------------------------------------------------------