Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!hsi!genly!chris From: chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: CLI path Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 91 00:56:50 GMT References: <18122@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Eggplant Software Tools, CT, USA Lines: 26 >In article chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) writes: >How does a new CLI inherit its path? In article <18122@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes: >CLI's inherit their path from their parent. If you are in a CLI, >and do a newcli, the child CLI will have a copy of the parents. > >Simple, right ? > >andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy >Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Thanks for the reply. But I was interested in the mechanism by which the inheritance takes place. How can a program I write discover what the path is. How can a program I write pass a new path onto a CLI it starts up? * * * \|/ * _______ --O-- ____/ KC1VP \____ * /|\ * ______/ (203) 389-8680 \______ ______/ Eggplant Software Tools \________ ______/ 95 Fountain Terr., New Haven, CT, USA, 06515 \_______ / Chris Hind Genly chris@genly.uucp uunet!hsi!genly!chris \ ----------------------------------------------------------------