On 12 Jan 2005 at 0:39, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > >> Default could also be DATAD$ or whatever. > > that would defeat the wholme exercice. > > Why that? It's just a fallback solution if otherwise no other > directory can be provided (none set).
Well, it already exists... Wouldn't it be better if the user explicitly set default home dirs per job name? (...) > > See my other email (starting a job from a trap?) > > I wonder how sms.crjb ever managed to do it ;-) By exiting via the scheduler? So this trap would have to do that, too. > Anyway, a vector is probably a better idea, yes. > (...) > > Well, partly yes, some files do tend to show up at wrong places if I > misspell a device name. On the other hand, I do prefer "ex fifi" over > "ex dev1_fifi". Yes, so do I. My problem always lies with testing whether a file exists. If you ask a user to type a filename and the test whether it exists, you might get an existing file which isn't the one the user typed in... (...) > As usual code reuse is the magic word. The DEV_ device exists, it > shouldn't be hard to adapt. But basically it's a separate project, if > there was a thing it would simply just use the thing, too. OK, noted :-)))) Wolfgang _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
