OSLib 6.11 Released

David Bryan D.J.Bryan at cranfield.ac.uk
Thu Sep 28 16:37:31 BST 2000


Tony van der Hoff wrote:

> Well, say the top-level OSLib directory is called <OSLib$Dir> . Then the
> default OSLib$Path would be defined as:
> 
> <OSLib$Dir>.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.types.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.macros.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.core.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.computer.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.user.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.toolbox.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.types.oslib.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.macros.oslib.
> <OSLib$Dir>.core.oslib.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.computer.oslib.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.user.oslib.,
> <OSLib$Dir>.toolbox.oslib.
> 
> Quite a handful, but still manageable, except under RO2, but I think we
> can safely ignore that.

With

  Set OSLib$Dir ADFS::HardDisc4.$.OSLib

the old definition of OSLib$Path comes to 214 characters, which is
OK.  The one above comes to a whopping 439.  AFAICR, this is not
going to work on anything before RO 3.7.  So, the extra layer of
path variables look necessary.

-- 
David Bryan




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