Re: Path of forms

The problem is I'm limited to setting these paths programmatically. I was aware of the existance of these environment variables, but as newbie, I'm unsure how to set them at runtime

Thanks for your help.

Connor McDonald wrote:

> Scott wrote:
> >
> > G'day
> >
> > I have a global variable that stores the path of the location of all my
> > forms.
> >
> > If I hardcode this into my forms, and the location of these files
> > changes, I'm stuffed.
> >
> > Does anyone know a way to get the path of a directory at runtime.
> >
> > I can't figure out how to do it using host, or the get_environment
> > function.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Don't use any paths at all, and then you can just use FORMSxx_PATH
> environment variable and/or ORACLE_PATH to control where things are
> found ...
>
> HTH
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  Received on Mon Oct 30 2000 - 19:18:13 CST