From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Mar 11 16:16:15 2010 Message-ID: <4B995CEC.60601@online.no> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:16 +0100 From: Jo Even Skarstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "mint@lists.fishpool.fi" Subject: Re: [MiNT] 'cd' does not like u: References: <11a6f2b11003101728h25f023a1od09aef69e469e8d6@mail.gmail.com> <689FFCF4D4F2434AB7CC9F3902A1B1A9@mercatus.local> <4B993D05.10207@online.no> <4B995222.3030803@online.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o2BLGF9s012072 Helmut Karlowski wrote: >> Yes, correct, but why should I do that? Basically you want me to add >> code to my correctly working program so MiNT can be adapted to a buggy >> program ;-) > > I rely on always to be on u: for any program (I know xaaes sets the > drive too in the fileselector). That may be OK in your case, but not in the general case. > BTW: keyedit always opens its starting directory, no matter what I give > to $SYSDIR. Yes, but KeyEdit can optionally save iẗ́'s current layout to $SYSDIR/keyboard.tbl when using the "Use layout"-button, and for that it reads the contents of /kern/sysdir. > When you want GEMDOS-path you can't use unix-shells (and other tools). But is MiNT a GEMDOS-variant or unix-variant? > But it's not a problem to convert the u:/c-style info /c-style inside > the shell. > > There is some code for this conversion in mintlib, but I'm not familiar > with it. There is, which is why 'cd c:' works ;-) Fixing cd/MiNTlib so 'cd u:' works too is IMO the correct way to deal with this situation. Jo Even