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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Command path question posted as 'Re: CDTV disk'
Summary: CLI's run from WorkBench do inherit a path
Message-ID: <3539@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 16 Aug 90 16:30:12 GMT
References: <11067@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <33cmN4w162w@valnet> <4562@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: wfh58@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (William F. Hammond)
Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY
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In article <4562@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> is asked:
>
>        The CLI/New Shell environment supports a search path that can be
>altered via the 'Path' command. Is there such a way to get Workbench to
>follow a similiar convention?
>

I don't understand just what it is you want to know.  The command path
applies only to the use of commands like "dir", "cd", and (good old) "ed"
entered in a shell or CLI.

Most of the time when a program is run from WorkBench by double-clicking on
an icon, that program will not be using such commands.  If it wants to use
system libraries, it will access them directly without going through
commands.  (After all, the programmer has no way of knowing what commands
will be available in the user's set-up.)

Perhaps you are concerned about the default path in a shell or CLI that
is started from WorkBench.  Absent "path" instructions in "s:CLI-Startup"
or "s:Shell-Startup", the path will be the path in force in the CLI from
which WorkBench was loaded, i.e., in which the command "loadwb" was run.
For example, if "loadwb" is run by your "s:Startup-Sequence" script, then
you can create a default command path for CLI's and reasonably standard
shells launched from WorkBench by inserting appropriate "path" instructions
in your startup script before the "loadwb" command.  (Most CLI's and shells
launched with "hot keys" also will by default inherit the path in force
at the time the "hot key" program is started if it is started in a CLI or
shell.)  Any such default path may be wiped out by a "path reset" (for
example, in your scripts "s:CLI-Startup" or "s:Shell-Startup").

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William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
518-442-4625                         SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222
hammond@leah.albany.edu              wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet
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