Re: Loading .csv files

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:

| On Mon, 16 May 2005, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > If we have a separate datapath that is initially the same as loadpath, 
| > what happens when a user adds (removes) directories from the loadpath? 
| > For compatibility, they would expect that load would find (skip) files 
| > in those directories.  So we might as well have just one path to search 
| > for both program and data files.
| 
| Is there a way to link the two together so that as one changes the other 
| is also changed?  I think shell variables (e.g., in tcsh) like 'PATH' and 
| 'path' are linked this way.  The user would have the option of unlinking 
| them.

There is no way to do this now.  It might be useful to have a feature
like this, but I don't plan to spend the time to implement it myself.

jwe



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