obtaining application paths
Jim Bufalini
jim at visitrieve.com
Tue Mar 31 17:27:02 EDT 2009
Thanks Mark and Mark! I really appreciate your prompt responses! :-)
Aloha from Hawaii,
Jim Bufalini
> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Wieder
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:18 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: obtaining application paths
>
> Jim-
>
> Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 10:27:47 AM, you wrote:
>
> > What is the best way, on a Mac, to get the path to the various files
> > included in a Rev distribution. So assuming there is Rev 2.8.1, 2.9,
> 3.0
> > etc. installed on a Mac, and without necessarily running the version
> of Rev,
> > how would you find say the revdb.so for a particular version of Rev?
>
> Don't know about "best", but how about:
>
> put "3.0.0" into tVersion
> put shell("locate revdb.so") into tFiles
> filter tFiles with "*/" & tVersion & "*"
>
> as long as the locate file database has been updated recently.
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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