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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:09:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> Right. In case the variable gets too long we can resort to multiple variables:
> [LDraw]
> BaseDirectory=C:\LDraw
> LgeoDirectory=C:\L2P
> LdrawSearch01=<HIDE>C:\LDrawXtra\MyPrims\In Work
> LdrawSearch02=C:\LDrawXtra\MyParts\In Work
> LdrawSearch03=<MODELDIR>
> LdrawSearch04=<HIDE><LDRAWDIR>\BFC\P
> LdrawSearch05=<HIDE><LDRAWDIR>\BFC\PARTS
> LdrawSearch06=<HIDE><LDRAWDIR>\P
> LdrawSearch07=<LDRAWDIR>\PARTS
> LdrawSearch08=<LDRAWDIR>\MODELS
> LdrawSearch09=<LDRAWDIR>\MODELS\TEST
> LdrawSearch10=C:\LDrawXtra\MyParts\Done
> LdrawSearch11=\\127.0.0.1\freedrive\public\ldraw\parts
> LdrawSearch12=<HIDE>/tmp/ldraw-temp-parts/
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> and this goes for environment variables too: LDRAWSEARCH01, LDRAWSEARCH02, ...
In DOS/Windows the problem with environment space is (I believe) more a problem
of limited total environment space. I don't think there's additional
limitations on individual variables. So using multiple environment variables
might conceivably make things worse.
Also, while I like the above (and it's very similar to the data I store in the
registry for LDView), I think we need to keep in mind here that Michael already
has the parsing working for the format he created. Consequently, unless we have
some pressing reason, I don't think it would be right to come up with a
different format that produces the same results as his format.
Unless we have some reason to find his format unacceptable, I think we should
only modify it by allowing absolute paths, moving the data into ldraw.ini
instead of MLCad.ini, and checking the user's home directory, then the windows
directory, for ldraw.ini. His comments so far seem to indicate that that would
be his preference.
Just my two cents.
--Travis Cobbs
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| (...) ME and the NT variants store the environment in the registry so this would only make things worse for 95 and 98. That said, I'd still prefer to keep things short for the environment version of this. One variable, with as many shortcuts as (...) (20 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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