-path vs. -open

[Micheal Allen Thompson]

I agree....

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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Karl MacMillan wrote:

>  
> As PD is cross platform I would really hate to see any platform specific
> attributes added.  This would take away what I think is a strong point. 
> In particular I think that any use of the registry should be avoided. 
> As part of my job I help support several hundred windows desktop systems
> and I can't tell you how many problems are caused by this windows
> 'feature'.  It works so poorly many large software companies refuse to
> code for it.  I agree with Richard that environment variables are not an
> elegant solution under windows - I am not even a fan of application
> specific enviroment variables under unix.  Plain text file .pdrc (unix)
> or pd.ini (windows) seem like the best choice to me.  Many of us really
> dislike the windows way of doing things - probably as much as many
> people dislike the unix way of doing things.  Any solution that steers
> clear of either direction is probably good and I think that .rc and .ini
> files are pretty neutral.  Just my two cents.
> 
> Karl
>  
> > Guenter Geiger wrote:
> > >
> > > forum::=?iso-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?=::=?iso-8859-1?Q?uml=E4ute?= writes:
> > >  > Since pd-0.27 I found it impossible to use the "-open" start-up argument
> > >  > on Win95.
> > >  > When using p.e. "pd -open hallo", pd is looking for "hallo.dll" which
> > >  > cannot be found (that's because I want to open "hallo.pd";
> > >  > trying "pd -open hallo.pd", pd looked for "hallo.pd.dll", which makes me
> > >  > laugh on one hand and cry on the other.
> > >  >
> > >  > I thought of it only as a Win32 problem, so I tried it on debian,
> > >  > getting "hallo : can't load library" vs. "hallo.pd : can't load library"
> > >  >
> > >  > Am I missing something really important ?
> > >  >
> > >
> > > pd something.pd
> > > "opens" something.pd ......
> > >
> > > "-open is a synonym for -lib" .... this is not documented correctly.
> > >
> > > Guenter
> > >
> > >  > mfg.bws.aeg
> > >  > hannes
> > >  >
> > 
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