Subj : Loadable Modules and full/relative paths
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Mar 09 2022 09:54:59

  Re: Loadable Modules and full/relative paths
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Mar 09 2022 09:04 am

 >   Re: Loadable Modules and full/relative paths
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Mar 08 2022 07:32 pm
 >
 >  >> For the Loadable Modules configuration in SCFG, it seems it doesn't
 >  >> accept full/relative paths, is that correct?
 >
 >  DM> It's a mix. Have you looked at the online (F1) help? It clarifies which
 >  DM> loadable modules use full command-lines are which are just module
 >  DM> names.
 >
 > I've had a look.  Does "full command-line" include a leading path, or does
 > that just mean it can take command-line parameters?

Looks like a leading path (e.g. "../xtrn/whatever/mod.js") should work fine.

 >  >> One workaround I thought of was to create another, DDMsgReader.js
 >  >> which one could place in sbbs/mods, which would just build a string of
 >  >> arguments from argv and then call bbs.exec() to run the actual
 >  >> DDMsgReader.  Or perhaps DDMsgReader.js could be moved into sbbs/exec,
 >  >> and its config files could be moved to sbbs/ctrl etc., but it seems
 >  >> cleaner to have all of its files together under /xtrn/DDMsgReader.
 >
 >  DM> Yup, either of those seem like viable workarounds.
 >
 > I suppose that will suffice.

Cool, let me know if they don't.
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