On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:46:18 +0100, Hans Hagen
On 11/5/2012 12:15 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
(2) why would mtxrun set the variables and risk overwriting something? The comments suggest it is for the benefit of the cnf files, but still --- why overwrite? ossetenv("HOME", homedir) -- can be used in unix cnf files ossetenv("USERPROFILE",homedir) -- can be used in windows cnf files
Wouldn't be better to set the "HOME" variable ONLY in the case it has not been defined? If I keep the code mentioned by Sietse - "Below: relevant code from mtxrun, lines 11681-11696" ---- local homedir = --osgetenv(ostype == "windows" and 'USERPROFILE' or 'HOME') or '' osgetenv("HOME") or ostype == "windows" and osgetenv('USERPROFILE') -- <- MY PROPOSAL HERE if not homedir or homedir == "" then homedir = char(127) -- we need a value, later we wil trigger on it end homedir = file.collapsepath(homedir) ossetenv("HOME", homedir) -- can be used in unix cnf files ossetenv("USERPROFILE",homedir) -- can be used in windows cnf files environment.homedir = homedir ---- Lukas
it just sets them local (for this run + subruns)
Hans
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