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- From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Elvis1.3, 3 fixes
- Message-ID: <B5P5504@xds13.ferranti.com>
- Date: 5 Sep 90 18:14:21 GMT
-
- In article <1358@tnosoes.izf.tno.nl> joep@tnosoes.izf.tno.nl (Joep Mathijssen) writes:
- > BTW: it's not possible to run elvis twice, because a fixed temporary
- > file is used!
-
- It's not possible to run it twice in the same directory. You can
- always go to another directory. The temporary file naming code in
- elvis is perhaps needlessly obscure.
-
- This is an even bigger problem in AmigaOS because the current directory
- isn't named ".". I build an empty stat structure with st_ino set to my
- pid (actually, FindTask(0)) and st_dev set to -1. This is unique to the
- program and guaranteed not to collide with anyone else.
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