OpenEuphoria

Re: system "feature"

• Posted by Mike Sabal <MikeS at NOTATIONS.COM> Apr 26, 2000
• 351 views

>>> donovan at ABS.NET 04/25/00 07:37PM >>>
One of the things I have run into is that under a Win32 environment the =
new shell does *not* appear to inherit *any* of the environment settings =
at all.
....a very messy solution which involved using getenv() and ...

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Which brings me back to my originial idea.  It seems it would be better =
for Euphoria to implement natively a set of file control commands similar =
to what is used for directory management.  As far as file naming, it could =
either be OS specific (/home/mike/blahblah in Linux or C:\mike\blahblah.doc=
 in Dos/Win), or an URL-like format could be used and then translated =
internally based on which version of Euphoria was being used.

For minimalization, it could be limited to copy, rename, and  delete; with =
move being a procedure that calls copy and delete.  This doesn't seem like =
too much to ask and would greatly enhance Euphoia's ability to do things =
by itself without such messy OS calls.

Also, checking the archives, these are features that have been asked for =
before; and while libraries exist, internalizing these primitives would =
make life a lot simpler for everybody.

Michael J. Sabal