Current menu script

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Feb 1 23:52:51 PST 2006


Confusious (Ken Cole) say:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> > It would be far more versatile to parse the fppath file to
> > obtain the path.  This way, in future, if and when you need
> > to migrate systems or even just change the location of fP's
> > programs to elsewhence, you don't have to modify anything
> > except the actual file that needs changing anyway.
> 
> I think he meant the menu path that the user has taken to get to the
> menu from which the script has been called, not a directory path.

Okay, let's revisit:

With neither thought nor caution, Jeff Harrison blurted:
>
> Perhaps I was not clear.  I was modifying all of the
> shell scripts anyway - by adding the following line as
> the first thing in each script:
>
> /appl/fp/dclerk lib -s1 -z logger -rw $0

No matter what his intent, that's a hardwired path to dclerk.  There is no
other way to interpret that if he was speaking literally, which I assume he
was.

It's not as portable or versatile as it could be.  That's all I meant.

mark->


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