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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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Date: 
Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:14:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> Anyhow, the unix PATH variable uses ':' as the delimiter (at least
> with the bash shell).  So maybe '|' is better, even though you need
> to use quotes when setting the environment variable to avoid it being
> interpreted as a pipe.  Is there any other character that's illegal
> in a directory name, but doesn't require quotes to get it into an
> environment variable?

I think old Mac's (before MacOSX) use : as directory delimiter.

> By the way, I like the idea of the two variables.  Were you thinking
> of searching all subdirs in these directories, or just the subdirs
> explicitly mentioned in the parts files like 48 and S?  Or were you
> expecting the additional directories to contain the P, PARTS, and
> MODELS directories, or some subset of them?

Only the specified directories. It's up to you to specify e.g.
LDRAWPOSTDIRS=C:\SomeDir\P|C:\SomeDir\PARTS
/Lars



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(...) Hey, you're right. I wonder how the Windows PATH variable handles that. Probably it just doesn't work... Anyhow, the unix PATH variable uses ':' as the delimiter (at least with the bash shell). So maybe '|' is better, even though you need to (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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