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From:Alexander Niven-Jenkins
Date:06 Aug 2000 at 07:14:14
Subject:Re: (unknown)

Hiya Andrew,

On 05-Aug-00, you wrote:

>> If anyone knows the answer I'd love to know - a shared library I'm
>> programming at the moment needs to read some config files.

> I always thought it depended what you were calling the library function
> from - a Process or a Task. The library function will usually be run on
> the caller's context, so therefore if it is a process it will indeed have
> a file handle to do DOS I/O.

Most libraries use ENV vars don't they? But then MUI reads config files
and that's libraries so...

Kind regards...

Alex



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