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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 20:29:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > > The hunt for ldraw.ini could be:
> > > Windows:
> > > %LDRAWINI%
> > > %USERPROFILE%\ldraw.ini
> > > %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ldraw.ini
> > > %windir%\ldraw.ini
> >
> > 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?
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. What does a
typical networked Windows installation look like? My USERPROFILE
and ALLUSERSPROFILE are on the C drive, but the "My Documents" folder
on the start menu is mapped to a location on the network via the
"%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Shortcut to My Documents.lnk" file. I suspect
the admins created that lnk via the login script, but I'm not positive.
> LDRAWINI is just an opportunity for quickly temporarily using another
> specific ldraw.ini file.
I don't think I'll ever use it because it confuses me. If you have
both LDRAWDIR and LDRAWINI environment variables set, which setting
do you use to determine the LDRAWDIR: the LDRAWDIR environment var,
or the BaseDirectory setting in $LDRAWINI/ldraw.ini? If you have a
particularly evil Windows administrator who points both LDRAWINI and
LDRAWDIR to his undesireable parts directories, how does the poor
Windows user go about overriding it?
Don
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