Unfortunately this won't work.
You will need some kind of preprocessor tool for your MAP files which
fills in the variables and generates MAP files.
Best regards,
Bart
Randy How wrote:
My question is - On a windows OS does MapServer respect system
variables? Specifically in regards to the map files and the
"location" field in the indexing shapefiles.
We are in the process of co-locating an existing enterprise system and
are concerned about file system paths and how to configure them
between locations.
For example, we currently have \\machine\drive\directory\filename.ext
<file://%5C%5Cmachine%5Cdrive%5Cdirectory%5Cfilename.ext> - I was
wondering if MapServer would recognize the system variable and
substitute the appropriate
value - \\%machine_drive1%\directory\filename.ext
<file://%5C%5C%machine_drive1%%5Cdirectory%5Cfilename.ext>
Thanks for any insight,
Randy How
Fort Collins, CO
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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
http://www.osgis.nl
