From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/79049 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: System variable HOME Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:46:18 +0100 Message-ID: <5097FB6A.7090201@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352137826 27137 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2012 17:50:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:50:26 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 05 18:50:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TVQoj-00041i-H1 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:50:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667B610249; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:50:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id a-eIwuC4b0sa; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:50:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408C0101F1; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:50:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21C5101F1 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:50:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id hGZKAmMqdVnz for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:50:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter5-til.mf.surf.net (filter5-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.221]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29567101F0 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:50:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qA5HihuV017908 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:44:45 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 1018-1713362 for multiple; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:50:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=16; city=Zeewolde; latitude=52.3302; longitude=5.5364; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3302,5.5364&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0WIjRIHrD - 5d605a378b17 - 20121105 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.221 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:79049 Archived-At: On 11/5/2012 12:15 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > (2) why would mtxrun set the variables and risk overwriting something? > The comments suggest it is for the benefit of the cnf files, but still > --- why overwrite? > ossetenv("HOME", homedir) -- can be used in unix cnf files > ossetenv("USERPROFILE",homedir) -- can be used in windows cnf files it just sets them local (for this run + subruns) they are set just in case one has cross platform scripts (like me) > Below: relevant code from mtxrun, lines 11681-11696 normally you can better look in a lua file in the tex/context/source path as that is the real source .. mtxrun is just a merge Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________