To: stik@ON-Luebeck.DE
Subject: Re: [6] STIK: STiK Components??                                                 


On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 01:21:00 Christian Andersson <falt wrote: 
>
>On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 23:20:18 Ronald Andersson <dlanor@ wrote: 

----- snip ----- re: using $HOME in configs and/or to find them
>
>I was not suggesting that STiK always should use the $HOME enviroment.
>I was suggesting that if I write an enviroment variable it should use it, 
>for instance in the stik_dir.dat
>instead of me having to write c:\home\faltrion\defaults\stik\ or whatever
>and tehn have to change the stik_dir.dat file for every user
>I could isntead write this in stik_dir.dat
>$HOME\defaults\stik\ or whatever. but to b able to do this, STiK need to be 
>able to sort out the enviroment strings.
>
>And for the Batch file that this thread started with I would write
>LOGIN_BATCH=$HOME\defaults\stik\login.bat
>
>See what I mean? :)))

Yes I do, and that would be perfectly acceptable to me, since the usage of
$HOME, or indeed any other environment variable, is then quite optional.
This will require Peter's rewriting all config scanning to include a pre-
parsing for environment variables to expand.  We'll see what he says.

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Regards:  Ronald Andersson                     mailto:dlanor@oden.se
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