Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!uwslh!lishka
From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ENV: variables (not so long)
Message-ID: <375@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 88 14:09:43 GMT
References: <8809090740.AA16138@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <8809090740.AA16138@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	But on my Amiga, I might want to put entire files in the ENV: !
>For instance, default ICONs and other junk...

     I do not intend to stretch this out, but you *can* put the name
of a file containing a default icon in Unix-style environment
variables, and then just access the file when needed.  It would be
more efficient to simulate the Amiga-env-variables with a Unix
implementation (in the manner described above) than to simulate
Unix-env-variables with an Amiga implementation and sub-directories. 

     Again, I think that *both* methods have their merits, as well as
drawbacks.  I like the Unix style, but I can certainly live with the
Amiga style.  I just do not see why others look down on the Unix style
environment variables so much (although their opinions are just as
valid as mine).  To each her/his own! 

>					-Matt

					.oO Chris Oo.
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