Sorry to sound so unnethusiatic but I cannot see that it is going to serve any real purpose.
As I said in another email better to be able to cinfigure the program so it has default locations for the program information and the data storage area. Also let users specify these with parameters when they start up the program. All problems to my miond are solved then. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Lenerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] I'm home, dear. > On 12 Jan 2005 at 23:46, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > > > > Your idea sounds excellent. Instead of my bicycle you and Wolfgang have > > > produced a Mercedes. I am in favour (as long as I dont have to produce it ;) > > > > Damn, that was my precondition, too! ;-) But it does start to sound > > like a worthwhile job. > > You will notice that (contrary to the long file names topic) I didn't ask a > question, but made a suggestion. This implies that I'm quite willing to > do that stuff... > > I'm not promising anything quick, though. > > Can we more or less agree on the following: > > --------------- > It will be set up as a "thing" (since I don't think we have found any other > satisfactory solution for compiled Basic). > For each job, the thing should contain: > the complete filename > the dir whence it came from (home dir) > the current dir which will initially be the home dir > > facilities should exist to > set the complete filename. This will also set the home dir and current > dir. > get the filename, home dir and current dir. > set the current dir (either directly or by ddup, ddown?) > get the length of the file/dir names (this would only be of interest > if *somebody* actually gets around to implementing some form of > long file names). > set a default filename for a job with a certain name > > ---------- > > Anything else? > > As usual, relatively few people have commented on this... > > > Wolfgang > > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
