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From: leivian@dover.uucp (Bob Leivian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: LESS unnecessary Workbench request (and note on getenv)
Message-ID: <31@dover.uucp>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 13:28:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: dover.31
Posted: Mon Aug 10 13:28:11 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 06:47:52 EDT
Organization: Motorola CAD Mesa, AZ {Dover}
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Keywords: LESS MANX GETENV

I just fixed an annoying little problem that was just pointed out to
me in LESS.  I never ran across it and none of my friends had either 
but on a single disk system (ya' mean you don't have two!) LESS makes
an unnecessary request for the workbench disk.

After some digging I found out why, manx's getenv is stored in a library
called "enviroment" that is checked on the "lib" disk  if you haven't
set up any variables (all my friends and I use env variables so it never 
showed up for me).  Manx take note --- your runtime should set up a
dummy lib the first time it is called,  that way it won't request the
WB disk for time 2 thru n.

Anyone writing programs using env variables should be aware of this for
single disk systems without the 'set' program

BTW: I fixed LESS and Fred Fish has a copy if you need the update (1.2)

--Bob L

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Bob Leivian         Motorola, Dover Shores (CAD Support)  602-994-6778
 ...{mcdsun, sun}!sunburn!dover!leivian                   Mesa, AZ