On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:39:30 -0800 (PST)
David Oleszkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave Serls wrote:
> >
> > > I've a situation where I want to select a different menuFile depending
> > > on the host that blackbox is running on (because of executable
> > > existence/location).
> > > Is there a way to accomplish this in .blackboxrc?
> > > I'm able to pas in -rc, of course, to blackbox, but this leads to
> > > other problems.
> >
> > I am curious: what problems?
> 
>   blackbox -rc blackboxrc.$(hostname)
> And define rc files for each or your different hosts.  In my case I use
>   blackbox -rc blackboxrc.$(uname)
> since my issues are only based on host type.
> This seems to work for me, but blackbox does automatically write out a
> .blackboxrc file it seems.
> I don't see what issues you could have.
> 

  Thanks Mark, Sean, and David.
  I think I'm going to patch blackbox.cc::load_rc (comitting serious c++ defacement)
  to expand some potential environment variable in the menuFile line of .blackboxrc.
  Perhaps use the first token of $HOSTNAME if present? 

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