.scr file

Hi,

In an .scr file, I noticed the following line:

set_attribute lib_search_path {. ../LIBRARY/LIBS/ } /

what does the single dot mean at the beginning of the brackets?

Thanks.

 

What kind of scr file? AFAIK .scr is a screensaver executable file which is not plaintext, so what is your scr for?

 

My take is that it represents an abbreviated pathname as such can be very long and cumbersome

 

Hi,

its a run file (script) that is run by RTL compiler.

 

like jimkeith says it's probably a pathname, the dot (.) is the current working directory usually and two dots (..) is the parent directory. I imagine that's just saying check this directory and also ../library/libs

 

The brackets are a search path for the libraries.

. means the current directory, it can also be listed as ./

The line tells the compiler to use libraries from the current directory first, and if not found, check the next path.