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Re: Standardized paths

To: reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Julian Reschke)
Subject: Re: Standardized paths
From: mh1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:35:16 +0100 (MET)
Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
In-reply-to: <9401111334.AA06670@math.uni-muenster.de> from "Julian Reschke" at Jan 11, 94 02:33:59 pm
Reply-to: hohmuth@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de

> Speaking of standardizing paths: is there a convention how to locate
> files that are supposed to live in /etc (like /etc/magic)?
> 
> Currently, I try u:\etc and $ETCDIR...

In UNIXMODE, "rX" tells you that X:\ is the root directory.  In the MiNT
library, "extern char _rootdir" contains the device letter of the root
directory, which is taken from UNIXMODE and defaults to 'u' under MiNT
(if U: was the current drive when the program was startet).

Michael
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References:
- Standardized paths
  - From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>

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