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From: smaug@eneevax.UUCP (Kurt Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Iconx questions
Keywords: window size format, cd
Message-ID: <1877@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 18:07:11 GMT
References: <1097@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: smaug@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Kurt Lidl)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: University of Merryland, EE Computer Staff
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In article <1097@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
>Two questions about 1.3's Iconx program:

>1) What's the format for the WINDOW= tool type? The 1.3 manual omitted this
>   litte detail.

Don't know about this one...  Sorry.

>2) How can I do an assign to the the current directory?
>   I'm trying to get some demos running on my hard drive that make
>   references to volume names, and in the interest of portability, I'd 
>   rather do an "assign demo1: ." (where "." is the current directory
>   like Unix does it), than have to do "assign demo1: ff1:demos/neato".
>
>   Editing the Iconx script if the demo is moved somewhere else on the 
>   hard drive is a minor inconvience to me, but it's beyond some users,
>   and I'm trying to make it as painless as possible.

The easiest way to do this (as far as I am aware) is to use the following
as a replacement for "."  Use a set of double quotes ("") as the
current directory marker.  Thus, your statement would become:
assign demo1: ""

Simple, no?  

Keep up the good work in making the demos easily movable between drawers
and disks...  An easy to use demo is a powerful arguement for a computer.

>Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland    580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108


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