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From: dsh3059@ritcv.UUCP (Denise Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New Mark Williams C
Message-ID: <218@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 00:46:07 GMT
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Reply-To: dsh3059@ritcv.UUCP (Denise Hinds)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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In article <154@forty2.UUCP> poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) writes:
>In article <346@coma.UUCP> axel@coma.UUCP (Axel Mahler) writes:
>>In article <889@rmi.UUCP> gsender@rmi.UUCP (Gerd Sender) writes:
>>... bla ...
>>>
>>>I prefer the usage of a RSC file. It is easier and safer.
>>>I see no advantage if I include the RSC file into the program.
>>
>>No benefits ?! It's a major nuisance to always think of moving those
>>f&*%ing resource-files around together with the programs. Separate
>>resource files are also a violation of GEM's idea of (well, kind of)
>>'object oriented-ness'. It's, for instance, not possible to open files
>>of a given type with some (application-) program if the resource file
>>for that program happens to reside in any other but the current
>>directory.
>>
>Axel, sorry but that's not true (I've mentioned this before...),
>rsrc_load uses the GEMDOS search path to find .rsc files. So I've
>got gemboot to set the path to something like:
>PATH=;C:\;D:\;E:\;D:\UTILITIE.S\;
>if I'm currently in C:\ASSEMBL.ER and double click a .s file, I can
>have a application start up which is anywhere in the search path and 
>it WILL find it's .rsc file.
>Another advantage of .rsc files, is that they can (in theory) be translated
>to another language, without recompiling the program.
>
>
>                        Simon Poole
>			BITNET: K538915@CZHRZU1A
>			UUCP: ...mcvax!cernvax!forty2!poole


	Simon, e-mail tends to bounce so I am posting instead...
	Could you please tell us how you set the gemdos path ?
	I want to do this independent of gemboot (which I do
	not have). Thanks.

					Denise