Find the root path under RiscOS 3.1

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From: Jonathan Cox
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:07

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Some time ago somebody posted something about finding the URD or CSD from the
fileswitch system variables under RiscOS 3.1.  It was something like:-

<FileSwitch$<FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>$URD>

Now if you try to use this to set another system variable to the root path,
with a command such as:-

set r <FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>:<FileSwitch$<FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>$URD>

you get

ADFS:$URD>

as GSTrans is not interpreting the nested angle brackets correctly.

The only solution I can come up with is:-

set r FileSwitch$<FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>$URD
seteval r <r>
set r <FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>:<r>

Is there a better way?

Jon.


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