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From: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (Chris Lishka (programmer at large) )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: User-defined libraries: how?
Message-ID: <1990Mar24.150025.3405@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 90 15:00:25 GMT
References: <6757@columbia.edu> <21580036@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM>
Organization: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
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billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (William C Wickes) writes:

>[...]  A library is in effect a compiled
>directory, in which variable names have been replaced by a hash table for
>faster access.  Access to the library's objects is then provided by
>XLIB name objects rather than global names.

>Libraries may also contain message tables, nameless objects, and configuration
>code.

It would be nice if HP provided a program to create your own XLIB's.
Maybe as part of a "programmer's toolkit" (i.e. I would be willing to
pay some $$'s for it).  I would love to be able to create a library of
my own functions and attach it to the HOME directory. 

Currently my HOME holds all of the functions that I need to be
globally accessible.  This makes HOME sort of a cluttered mess, and I
use another directory "root" as my "virtual HOME" directory. 

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