Documentation for DOSPath V1.0 25-Aug-1996 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1996 Stefan Becker No program, document, data file or source code from this software package, neither in whole nor in part, may be included or used in other software packages unless it is authorized by a written permission from the author. NO WARRANTY There is no warranty for this software package. Although the author has tried to prevent errors he can't guarantee that the software package described in this document is 100% reliable. You are therefore using this material at your own risk. The author cannot be made responsible for any damage which is caused by using this software package. DISTRIBUTION This software package is freely distributable. It may be transfered to any media which is used for the distribution of free software like Public Domain disk collections, CDROMs, FTP servers or bulletin board systems. In order to ensure the integrity of this software package distributors should use the original archive file DOSPath1_0.lha (file name on Aminet: DOSPath.lha). The author cannot be made responsible if this software package has become unusable due to modifications of the archive contents or of the archive file itself. There is no limit on the fee taken by distributors, e.g. for the media costs of floppy disks, streamer tapes or compact discs, or the process of duplicating. Such limits have proven to be harmful to the idea of freely distributable software, e.g. the software package was removed instead of reducing the price of a floppy disk below the limit. Although the author does not impose any limit on these fees he would like to express his personal opinions on this matter: * This software package should be made available to everyone free of charge whenever this is possible. * If you have purchased this software package under normal conditions from a Public Domain dealer on a floppy disk and have paid more than 5DM or US $5 then you have definitely paid too much. Please don't support this improper profit making any longer and switch to a cheaper source as soon as possible. USAGE RESTRICTIONS No program, document, data file or source code from this software package, neither in whole nor in part, may be used on any machine which is used * for the research, development, construction, testing or production of weapons or other military applications. This also includes any machine which is used in the education for any of the above mentioned purposes. * by people who accept, support or use violence against other people, e.g. citizens from foreign countries. I. What is the purpose of this software package? ================================================ Each CLI process created by AmigaDOS has a so called "command path list" a list of directories which is used to find the commands the process wants to run. It can be controlled from scripts with the CLI command "path". Programs can also supply a path list to a CreateNewProc() call which is used to create new CLI processes. Unfortunately the data structures for AmigaDOS path lists don't appear anywhere in the official documentation. Also no support routines for handling path lists are available in the dos.library. If you need to handle path lists in your program then the dospath.library can help you. It offers support routines for: - Copying an existing path list - Building a path list from a list of directory names - Copying the path list of the Workbench process - Freeing a path list - Remove a directory from a path list - Set and get the path list of a process - Find a file using a path list Please read the Autodoc and the example source code on how to use the library. II. Installation ================ Just copy the file libs/dospath.library into your LIBS: directory. III. Contents of this software package ====================================== dev/ Autodoc, FD and C header files for dospath.library. It also contains the C source code for the DOSPath examples and the DICE link libraries. libs/ dospath.library. Copy this file to LIBS: src/ Source code for the dospath.library. It has been written for DICE 3.0 and is included for educational purposes only. Use the command "DMake" to compile it. DOSPath.txt This documentation. IV. History =========== ?.? (??-???-199?) - Added GCC support file 1.0 (25-Aug-1996) - Initial release V. Contact addresses ==================== Send comments, suggestions or bug reports to: Postal address: Stefan Becker Bonner Ring 68 D-50374 Erftstadt GERMANY EMail: stefanb@yello.ping.de World Wide Web: http://www.ping.de/sites/yello/