Re: Name of this folder
Re: Name of this folder
- Subject: Re: Name of this folder
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:49:00 +0000
Richard 23 wrote on Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:28:22 -0800:
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>>> Explanation:
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>>> ":" as alias
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>>> retuns the path to the container of the script. Note this is a 'trick'
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you
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>>> won't find in the dictionary. In fact, I don't understand it myself.
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Just
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>>> something some clever dude figured out ;)
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and jeepers, why bother with the colon. I've always used:
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"" as alias
The colon version is part of a larger relative addressing system. Two
colons ("::" as alias) will give you the container of the container.
Three will give you the container of that - and so on until you run out
of containers and get an error.
NG