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From: Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Better way to check for wget
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:23:05 GMT
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In message <TrydnZhlbaR8XJf9nZ2dnUU7-XvNnZ2d@giganews.com>
          Vince M Hudd <atdotcodotuk@dotcodotukat.co.uk> wrote:

>On 20/01/2021 20:58, Kevin Wells wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> Is their a better way to check for wget, either in the !Run obey file or
>> in the main application file in BASIC to check for wget?
>
>[As well as the current method of checking for a system variable]
>
>Off the top of my head, something along the lines of:
>
>IfThere "<Boot$Dir>.Library.wget" then Set <MyApp$WGet>
>If "<Wget$Dir>" <> "" THEN Set <MyApp$WGet>
>If "<MyApp$Wget>" = "" THEN Error message

Thanks for this, but Ronald May sent me an idea off list, that got me an
idea which I'm implementing in the application BASIC file rather than
the !Run file, in which I use X wget and send the log into the
applications scrap file and if the scrap file exist or not do what is
required.
>
>Not sure how sensible that is, TBH, having never needed to do something
>similar. (And not having a RISC OS machine switched on to check. e.g. is
>there a specific variable used for the library directory? Any other
>locations it could potentially be squirrelled away in? etc.)
>


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