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  Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
 
"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HtwMAE.3BM@lugnet.com... (...) Done, sorry about that - but it was a hard day at work :-( (...) As mentioned earlier in this thread ... we should go with: 1) Users Home (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  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 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
 
(...) /etc would work, except it would require admin permission to install, which is something the Mac OS X community doesn't like for an installer/app that isn't a system modifying type of installer/app. Saving stuff in /etc/ will also not survive (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
 
(...) Oops, I forgot to add this. These sort of restrictions mean a user may be forced to put extra search directories in their home directory. Rather than recognize $HOME or %USERPROFILE% in an absolute path, it might be nice to add a <HOME> (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)


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