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Subject:	Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:31:01 GMT
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One other thing. Environment variables work too, but only serious Unixy Mac OS X people actually modify them--that is, some developers, but no one else. Normal users would even know what they are. Heck, even I don't modify mine. For my l3p and ldglite launcher apps, I grab the ldrawdir from the prefs, then I modify the environment variable before it is launched. But the variable is wiped out once the app is quit. -- James Reynolds http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jer29950 james@magnusviri.com - james@scl.utah.edu

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		Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
(...) Actually Environment variables work pretty well on OS X because they've set up a standard place to put them, and it's one of those plist files. See here for details. (URL) would be nice though to have a standard fallback location for the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
(...) I'm only willing to abandon environment variables if you're willing to go the distance and really try to work out a standard that we all can use. I, like Lars, was quite disappointed when you got impatient and cut short the previous discussion (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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