[REBOL] Re: REBOL_HOME
From: mumpsoid:gmx at: 28-Mar-2009 10:44
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Tim Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 27 March 2009, mumpsoid-gmx.com wrote:
> > I set the REBOL_HOME env. var. to point to $HOME/rebol where I want
> > all my REBOL scripts scripts to live. Either the interpreter does not
> > recognize this env. var. or I'm missing something, cuz when I do:
> >
> > load %blah.r => no joy
> > load rebol/%blah.r => no joy
> >
> > Do I need to specify the complete path for REBOL to find files?
> > Anybody else having issues with REBOL_HOME?
>
> I've used rebol on linux for over 8 years. I never did get REBO_HOME to work.
> I've gotten used to a customized user.r which is either loaded explicitly
> as in load %/some/path/to/user.r or resides in the same directory as
> the executable script. Even with a cgi script, the rebol binary appears to
> check for a user.r in the same directory as the script.
> I went on to customize user.r with a system path variable and an import
> scheme. Code available if you want.
> [tim: almost-60]
>
Hey Carl S. -- are you listening in on this?
Hello Tim....
I'd appreciate your code that works-around this PITA. REBOL_HOME would
have been way too cool I suppose. I think that the problem is in the
semantics between the *nix definition of $HOME and HOME means to the
rest of computer-dom.
Carl S. ---- is this easily fixable?
Almost 60!!!! Start counting backwards NOW - young man. You'll live
to enjoy it ;))
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