Charley: I suspect he's talking BASH where $HOME is a user's top level file directory. For ordinary users this is nowhere near the root of the directory tree. On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Charles Crawford wrote: > I don't know what language you are using. Usually there is an > initialization of the variable such as store "home" to mydir > and then you would use mydir as the variable to capture the input of the > user and if the default of home, the program would search for he associated > object of home when executing the operation at run time. I only really > know Clipper but it would look like this: > > Store "home" to mydir > accept " Where do you want to go? " to mydir > goto mydir > > > Of course I have no idea of the context in which your are programming. > > -- Charlie Crawford. > At 02:18 PM 9/20/01 +00-02, you wrote: > >Hello list, I used to know how to do this but can't think of it at the > >moment. How does one go about including the output of an environment > >variable in a command line? I thought it was something like the following > >command line example. > > 'program --directory $HOME$/test' where $HOME$ is the variable I want to > > insert. When I try this the program complains it can not find the directory. > > > >Any help on this would be appreciated. > > > >Doug > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
