I think a code alone would be better, because if someone wants to run fricas in such a way, he'll have to care about coresponding working dir value (or provide absolute file path).
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Andrey G. Grozin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Waldek Hebisch wrote: >> >> We already have getEnv function. > > I think we can postpone design and implementation of a general mechanism for > passing command-line arguments. Now there is a pressing need, for starting > FriCAS from TeXmacs, to do something like that: > > * TeXmacs calls > fricas -pre texmacs.input > > * fricas script does > export FRICAS_PRE=texmacs.input > > * i-toplev.boot calls getEnv("FRICAS_PRE") and, if this variable is set, > reads the file after .fricas.input but before starting the interactive > session > > This mechanism is quite useful in itself, without TeXmacs. Any user can have > several files with initial settings for different kinds of sessions, and > using just one init file .fricas.input for temporary needs is inconvenient > because it's too permanent. > > What do you think about this specific proposal? Of course, the names (-pre > and FRICAS_PRE) can be replaced by something better. > > Andrey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
