🚀 go-pugleaf

Gert Poletiek writes:
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>I hope that it is used for more than just passing a 'path'.
                                      ^^^^
Gert, 'just'? Even on such bl**dy systems as IBM-PC's you can
set a PATH variable, which most programs actually use. As I've
already mentioned there is a VERY simple call to the AES which
will return the complete GEMDOS path to a file, if found in the
PATH list. If I didn't think this feature was important, I would
have never started this fight.

Allan Pratt writes:
>Now for the big news:  if you put all your resource files in the root
>of your boot device (C: for hard disk users) the AES will find them
>no matter where the .PRG is started from!  This is because the environment
>the AES gets initially includes "PATH=;C:\;" and it looks in this path
>when you do the shell_find call (which rsrc_load uses).  Watch this space
>for a program which lets you put your resources in any directory!

A) This is not big news, I've mentioned the fact  a few times that the AES
   uses 'PATH', as I said before, this is the reason I started the fight
   in the first place.

B) Aha, so ATARI has suddenly decided that we can boot from a harddisk?
   When are we going to be able to get the boot program from our local
   dealer?

                                 Simon Poole
                                 K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET