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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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lugnet.cad.dev
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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