Re: OT Mac equiv of PATH (was: total newbie question

2002-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
Brian Chabot said: >On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote: > >> >If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) be >> >started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS >> >only searches the "System" folder automatically. This led to many progra

Re: OT Mac equiv of PATH (was: total newbie question

2002-04-19 Thread Brian Chabot
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote: > >If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) be > >started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS > >only searches the "System" folder automatically. This led to many programs > >being copied to the

Re: OT Mac equiv of PATH (was: total newbie question

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, at 3:11pm, Jack Hodgson wrote: >> If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) >> be started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS >> only searches the "System" folder automatically. > > I've been involved with Mac since

OT Mac equiv of PATH (was: total newbie question

2002-04-19 Thread Jack Hodgson
Ben Scott wrote: >If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) be >started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS >only searches the "System" folder automatically. This led to many programs >being copied to the System folder, just so they wou