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From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Gemini Standard Usages
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 18:43:17 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May31.184317.26514@lsuc.on.ca>


I've been working with Gemini off and on for a while now and
I hope somebody can pass these comments to the programming team.
It's all regarding the "mupfel.mup" file:

HOME is defined as the current "gemini" directory.  This is
a bad practice.  You should tell people to define "HOME" to
their current "working directory", whereever that is.
On a Unix system, my normal HOME directory would generally
be something like "/usr/mygroup/jimomura".  This is the directory
in which I do my usual work.  The thing to emphasize is that
it has *nothing* to do with the operating system or executables.
In fact, it's mainly just text data files of my own concern.
If you don't learn this concept early on your going to scr*w up
your system organization by writing programs that look to the
wrong places for the wrong things.

Also, I have no idea what they are intending to use the "CDPATH"
for.  I've never seen it on a Unix system or an OS-9 system and
I don't know what program would look for it.  Is that supposed to
be a path for CD Rom applications?
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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