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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 22:04:03 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > Seems to me programs need the ability to specify the LDRAWINI directory
> > (and possibly LDRAWDIR) on the command line, for non-standard setups.
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> I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Do you mean "USERS need the
> ability to specify", or "programs need the ability to READ"? Either way,
> that approach is for advanced users (software geeks) only. We're trying
> to improve things for ordinary users, and forcing them run a command
> prompt to use their preferred non-standard settings in their LDRAW
> programs is just wrong. Even for an advanced user, how is this better
> than just setting an environment variable right before running the
> program?
And I'm pretty sure on Mac OS X, if you use the finder to activate
your program, you have no control whatsoever over the command line.
So you already need another way if you want to click on a LDR file
or link and have something happen.
Don
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| (...) I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Do you mean "USERS need the ability to specify", or "programs need the ability to READ"? Either way, that approach is for advanced users (software geeks) only. We're trying to improve things for ordinary (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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