Subj : Some easy BAJA questions?
To : High Spirit
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 08 2014 04:52 pm
Re: Some easy BAJA questions?
By: High Spirit to All on Wed Jan 08 2014 10:31 am
> So I have my first Synchronet BAJA program almost complete. Along the way I
> run into a few possible issues that I need answered.
>
> Are there system variables the directory locations configured in SCFG? My
> program opens data files and I would like the files to be stored in the
> SBBS/DATA/<MYPROGRAM> folder. I am currently accomplishing this by using
> "/sbbs/data/<MYPROGRAM>" (linux path). Would the proper way be to use
> "../data/<MYPROGRAM>"? But that leads me to another question... What if the
> DATA folder is set to be somewhere else in SCFG?
Baja modules can use the "%j" command-line specifer to get the configured "data
dir" location (see
http://wiki.synchro.net/config:cmdline for examples). In
this case, '%j' is the specifier for the data directory and you can put that in
a string via Baja, like so:
sprintf my_filepath "%%j%s" my_filename
(note the double-percent escaping above)
or:
set data_dir "%j"
> Is the DATA directory the best place to store files for External Programs
> or is there another directory that would be better?
A sub-directory off of data might be a good place (like data/my_module).
> Linux vs. Windows... No not a debate... when working with paths and
> files... linux uses "/" while windows uses "\". Do I need to figure out
> what OS is being used and use the proper slash or will something interally
> figure it out?
Just use a forward-slash, it'll work on both.
digital man
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