On 16-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:
| On Mon, 16 May 2005, John W. Eaton wrote:
|
| > If we have a separate datapath that is initially the same as loadpath,
| > what happens when a user adds (removes) directories from the loadpath?
| > For compatibility, they would expect that load would find (skip) files
| > in those directories. So we might as well have just one path to search
| > for both program and data files.
|
| Is there a way to link the two together so that as one changes the other
| is also changed? I think shell variables (e.g., in tcsh) like 'PATH' and
| 'path' are linked this way. The user would have the option of unlinking
| them.
There is no way to do this now. It might be useful to have a feature
like this, but I don't plan to spend the time to implement it myself.
jwe
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