Re: Find the root path under RiscOS 3.1

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From: Denis Howe
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:17

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In article <COXJP.92Dec15150754@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
coxjp@cs.man.ac.uk (Jonathan Cox) wrote:

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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.

Me and others.

>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?

I assume you could use Owen Smith's suggestion of OS_FSControl 37
(canonicalise name) on "$" for this.  If you want to do it all in CLI
commands then your solution is probably as good as my:

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

(or replace CSD with URD) though, as I said, the first line is not
necessary so you could do it in one (long) command.
--
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: Find the root path under RiscOS 3.1
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