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From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
Subject: Re: Digested
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 23:24:48 -0600
Precedence: bulk
Hello Evan,
>Hmm .. I don't think a full path is needed. Applications shouldn't
>change from the working directory so making things relative to that
>shouldn't be too hard. For global settings you either use the full
>path, or if you want to access a different file for each application
>with one global setting, then make it relative.
No, please! :) I have had so many problems dealing with relative
pathnames it makes me sick. It is no trouble at all to use absolute
paths, and it would really make life easier. (At least it would make my
life easier.) Besides, applications do switch paths sometimes.
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