Re: Complicated question re: saving files

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:48 PM Rick Engebretson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As I understand the original question (please re-read it) it is actually
> an interesting issue for me, too.
>
> Whether digging up tractor parts, furnace parts, construction parts,
> renewable energy info, or Linux programs, etc., it would be nice to know
> where the documentation was referenced.
>
> BTW, your private email remarks;
>
> "That’s an off-list reply you made to the group.
>
> This is an off-list reply that I’m making directly to you."
>
> constitute harassment.
>

Left the email complete but am trying to bottom post in the relevant section.
Really don't know anything about the previous 7 lines of text.
No idea what they're about either.

Please advise.



>
>
> Ryan Coleman wrote:
> > Iz,
> >
> > There might be a device-level option, to be honest, but I’ve only ever done it based on inserted media.
> >
> > That said - I wouldn’t even try to chase this idea… as you said - if you know the path already and you’re doing a CLI then it’s already in the user's hands.
> >
> > —
> > Ryan
> >
> >> On Dec 13, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Iznogoud <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am also confused.
> >>
> >> I am pretty positive that you cannot make (very easily) a GUI program give
> >> you a string of the filename (with full path) of a file that it has opened.
> >> But if you made the program open that file using the command line, you
> >> already have that string, and you may have to play some tricks with shell
> >> variables, etc, to fully construct it.
> >>
> >> If your GUI program was launched somehow, say by clicking on a PDF link in
> >> the browser, you are most likely out of luck.
> >>
> >> I think that your question is not well formed/posed.
> >>
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