Re: [MiNT] 'cd' does not like u:

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Am 11.03.2010, 21:27 Uhr, schrieb Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>:

> > If you cd u: before the Fopen should work.
>
> Yes, correct, but why should I do that? Basically you want me to add
> code to my correctly working program so MiNT can be adapted to a buggy
> program ;-)

I rely on always to be on u: for any program (I know xaaes sets the drive  
too in the fileselector).

BTW: keyedit always opens its starting directory, no matter what I give to  
$SYSDIR.

> > It's changed for and by that program only.
>
> And all it's children. So any program started by Teradesk will inherit
> the current working drive from Teradesk. This is exactly why
> Fopen("/kern/sysdir") doesn't work in my plain GEM-program when started
> from Teradesk. If started from bash it works, because it inherits bash'
> current working drive. Seems pretty fragile to me.

True - that would be a problem.

> > Except $SYSDIR ;-)
>
> Why? What is the problem with $SYSDIR? Why should this particular
> variable/setting depend on the parameter passed to Dsetdrv? In GEMDOS,
> an absolute path always refers to a drive/partition. In unix, it refers
> to the root fs. So what is MiNT - GEMDOS or unix?

When you want GEMDOS-path you can't use unix-shells (and other tools).

But it's not a problem to convert the u:/c-style info /c-style inside the  
shell.

There is some code for this conversion in mintlib, but I'm not familiar  
with it.

(I redirect to mintlist)

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Helmut Karlowski