On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:04:09 -0700, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:

>
>Per Jessen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Monday, October 28, 2002 12:54 PM):
>
>>>directive doesn't cause an instance of Analog to change it's
>>>"current working directory".
>
>> That's not what I asked for either. I merely suggested that it might be sensible/
>> reasonable for CONFIGFILE to work similar to eg. C #includes or relative
>> URLs in HTML documents. I find it counter-intuitive at the moment - whenever
>> I use CONFIGFILE I need to remember where this particular config-file may or
>> may not have been imbedded/included from.
>
>Use absolute paths and you won't have to worry about it.

Correct - but surely that is the most awkward solution. What if my analog
config files happen to be on filesystems that are mounted at different 
mount point on different systems ? 

Anyway, I fully appreciate that it would undoubtedly be difficult to 
change CONFIGFILE at this stage, but perhaps a flag that controls the
behaviour would work ? 


/Per

regards,
Per Jessen, Zurich
http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.


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