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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:39:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> > Trailing blanks are preserved in both env var and ini files.
> > So I still don't think quotation marks are necessary...
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> Ah, but what about leading blanks. ;^) Nevermind, I don't think you
> can create an absolute path that starts with leading blanks.
No, but leading blanks would be preserved as well...
> > I think having ldraw.ini in LDRAWDIR is contradictory, the hen and
> > egg problem. To keep thing simple I would like to have only *one*
> > ldraw.ini, and since we're going to have it in
> > HOME/USERPROFILE/windir anyway to find the LDRAWDIR, I don't see any
> > reason to spread it out.
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> > The hunt for ldraw.ini could be:
> > Windows:
> > %LDRAWINI%
> > %USERPROFILE%\ldraw.ini
> > %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ldraw.ini
> > %windir%\ldraw.ini
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> But wait. The reason given for looking in LDRAWDIR is for a central
> networked LDRAW installation at a school. It'd be nice to have a
> default ldraw.ini file at the central location that can be overridden
> by one in a users home directory.
Isn't that what %ALLUSERSPROFILE% is for?
> Or are you promoting LDRAWINI as the one and only setting required to
> be on the client? Should we depreciate the LDRAWDIR environment
> variable since it can be set in the file found by the LDRAWINI hunt?
> I don't like this. I think we can use LDRAWDIR if we're clever.
LDRAWINI is just an opportunity for quickly temporarily using another
specific ldraw.ini file.
/Lars
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| (...) I'm logged onto an NT domain right now at work and it's set to this: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users That's on the local drive. But I suppose you're right, a competent administrator could set it up somewhere on the network. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I agree, and prefer <> around all tags. (...) Ah, but what about leading blanks. ;^) Nevermind, I don't think you can create an absolute path that starts with leading blanks. (...) But wait. The reason given for looking in LDRAWDIR is for a (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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