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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  1001 paths
Message-ID: <442@sas.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 18:49:28 GMT
References: <3836@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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You don't want the path to require an "addpath" because you want this path-
style device to work the same for all possible assignments.  On the other
hand, the objection to "assign" that it limits you AmigaDOS path sizes seems
legitimate, so why not just do paths like ENV: (or even get them out of env:?):

    assign c: path:c
    echo > path:c "vdk:c, df0:system, df0:utilities, !df0:c"

(the `!' to indicate that this is where a file should be added if the user
attempts to create a file in c:).

    Of course, if this is all that the mythical "addpath" command does, fine.
But I, for one, like the property of the "env"-type approach that allows all
my traditional file-maninpulation tools to work on the environments/paths/&c.

-- 
                                                         --Brian.
(Brian T. Schellenberger)				 ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts

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