Re: standard paths (Was: Re: MiNT goes UNIX. I hope not. )

[Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>]

>|>In <199401171650.AA21237@ruulot.let.ruu.nl>, Annius Goenink wrote:
>|>
>|>The current mechanism, looking for an enironment variable first and use a
>|>hardcoded path if it ain't there, is not to bad. Only the way in which to
>|>decide what the builtin path must look like should be standardised, at the
>|>moment it's a bit chaotic, to say the least.
>|>
> There is a third way: in my setup I have a file `c:\etc\host.cnf'
>(yes, the name is currently fixed, but as it is the only fixed name it
>could be easily changed by a utility like fixstk). In c:\etc\host.cnf
>there are entries like
>ETCDIR=/dev/u/etc
>LIBDIR=/dev/u/usr/lib
>HOSTNAME=<Guess>
>etc.
>
>For special programs one could add a line
>PROGRAMNAME_CNF=<location of program special-.cnf file>
>in which setups can be done which affect only one program
>
>c:\etc\host.cnf and the program.cnf-file could be set up by
>install-scripts or programs.
>
>Some of my programs use this feature already and it works quite fine.
>
>
>Any comments?

This would itself have to be configurable in a way that "normal" users
couldn't change as someone may want to run MiNT as a multi-user system
sometime in the future. (Some day MiNT might actually become secure..
giggle.)


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Steve

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