Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

john sinclair <[email protected]> · Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:48:41 -0400

To all edm users:

I would like to change the way edm handles file names that contain directory 
references.

The following examples show the current behavior.

Given:
  o EDMDATAFILES=/dir1:/dir2
  o Current directory is /cur

  1) file name is one
      o edm attempts to open "/dir1/one.edl"
         if this fails, edm attempts to open "/dir2/one.edl"
         (search path is used)

  2) file name is sub/one
      o edm attempts to open only "/cur/one.edl"
         (search path is not used)

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I want to change the behavior so that the search path is used when the file 
name contains a relative directory reference and not used only when the file 
name contains an absolute directory reference.

So, in the example above

  edm would attempt to open "sub/one" as
  "/dir1/sub/one.edl" and "/dir2/sub/one.edl"

  edm would attempt to open "/top/one" only as "/top/one.edl"

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If I implement the proposed change, will things break for anyone?

-- 
John Sinclair

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System