Re: Finding the CSD

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From: Denis Howe
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:58

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banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz wrote:

>Set My$CSD <FileSwitch$<FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>$CSD>

mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Y Ben Gershon) replied:

>I couldn't get this to work.  Has anyone else had any luck with it?

In article <4813@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
wsinda@wsintt02.info.win.tue.nl (Dick Alstein) concurred:

>Nope. Nesting the variables doesn't work.

Funnily enough, I've just done this.   After my success doing it under
RISC OS 2, doing it under RO3 was just too easy (though still not as
easy as you would expect).  From memory:

Set FS <FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>
SetEval CSD "<FS>:"+FileSwitch$<FS>$CSD

The first command is only necessary to make the second one fit on one
line!  Who knows, maybe by RISC OS 4 they'll have got it down to one,
easy to swallow, variable. :-)

Anyone know a simpler way?
--
Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
So Biggs, you're the idiot who bought all these IBM PCs.  You're fired!

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Subject: Re: Finding the CSD
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