Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bh1e+ From: bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: path variale addition to basic.system... Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 90 15:03:34 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Hmmm... has anyone looked into adding a routine to basic system that allows the use of external commands WITH a path variable? Say you set $PATH = /h1/commands:/h1/basicdev/beta.comds... then if you type at the prompt ]reboot it scans the paths to see if you have a program of type CMD called reboot. if you do, it executes it at $XXXX (stadardized). if you don't, it passes it on... it would have to know what to pass on immediately (with a\ table of ProDOS and BASIC commands), or it would build a table of files in the paths at start of execution and not have to scan ever. Good idea? or bad? (probably would require aux ram...disabling the RAMDISK)