Re: SixPack mods for Linux users

Gents,
I am a bit behind in following the posts to this group.  Real world work intrudes from time to time...

First of all, I want to thank Blake for coming up with changes that benefit those of you who have not had the Microsoft brain chip installed, and for whom slashes go the other way :-)

(Disclaimer:  I worked for Microsoft for 13 years...)

I think the best approach is for me to create a Linux folder in the SixPack distribution, and place the appropriate files there.  I will update the readme file to direct Linux uses there.  This way we don't need to worry about incompatibilities between Linux and Unix.

However, as I don't run Linux, I can't test this stuff.  But I am happy to add it to the distribution.

What say all of you?

Bob
Regards,  Bob

--- In [email protected], "bh_mayor" <stuart@...> wrote:
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> Paul,
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> Indeed I know that "SLASH=/" does not work in windows, as the script was written for Linux and designated in my post as such. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, the absence of a definition for "SLASH" (in say the Windows world) would leave the config file using the default as defined as "\".
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> Now, I had not realized that Windows would deal with "/", figuring why would someone define it otherwise if a more standard solution was available? Besides, it is not unlike Mr. Gates and his minyans to stand in absolute contradiction to standards existing long behofe he was ever a player on the IT scene.
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> Yet still, using my solution does make the file paths more readable for the Windows user that is used to that style, while provisioning the flexibility for the Linux user by running my script.
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> Blake
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> --- In [email protected], "paoloG" <crc@> wrote:
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> > --- In [email protected], "bh_mayor" <stuart@> wrote:
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> > > Paul,
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> > > Perhaps, but it also makes it easier to read (using the DEFSYMs) and easier to change the directory structure should someone wish to do so.
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> > > I am also updating the startup script I wrote, as I added a few more features to it.
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> > > Blake
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> > > --- In [email protected], "kerravon86" <kerravon86@> wrote:
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> > > > --- In [email protected], "bh_mayor" <stuart@> wrote:
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> > > > > export SLASH=/
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> > > > There is no need for this. Windows will happily
> > > > use "/" in this situation, and so the sixpack
> > > > should use "/" IMHO.
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> > > > BFN.  Paul.
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> > The great Kerravon86 gave you the right answer.
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> > I'm mainly a Windows user, but sometimes I installed Hercules on Linux devices,for example on various kinds of NAS (D-LINK - QNAP - SYNOLOGY), so I usually change '\' into '/' in Windows Hercules config files. 
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> > BTW your 'export SLASH=/' doesn't work in Windows, so to heal an inconvenience you are causing a greater one.
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> > The DEFSYM suggestion is a good idea (I have many computers and I'm using DEFSYM from the beginning of my Hercules adventure;-), but I think it should be left to the single user according to his preferences; after all we are all IT professionals and we should be able to deal with so simple tasks...
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> > BFN
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> > Paul
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