jms1 writes: > I have not used the path rext but if it worked like path in MSDOS or Unix > vatriants it would solve a lot of problems. > > A Path could be set up to cover all your program directories and then a > program will able to find its help, configurration or other files because > it will be in the path. > > Data$ can be set to ones "home directory" > Prog$ can be set to start up program directory.
I think people work to different paradigms. Paths are all well and good, but wouldnt solve any problems for me unless the path string were half a mile long, which is impractical. > I have skipped the correspondence about long file names, but both > MSDOS and Unix use files as directories. These could contain the long > directory names and the actual directory name which is a single byte > allocated by the system (if 256 directories is enough!). The system > could automatically create the directory files and use them. Hence on > an old system the existing file names would work but a new system <> Currently Qdos directories are nothing else than a special kind of file, ie just as you propose. Or do you mean that one should use an additional, secondary directory file with a different structure to store the "long" filenames? > Rather similar to the long file name change in Windows I once understood how Windoze got around the filename limitations of Msdos and thought it a clever idea (it was ugly, but it worked) but I can no longer remember. Does anyone here know? And would it be possible for us to make use of the same method? <> Per _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
