But I can't see much use for the SYS / PLATFORM / PLATFORM_LOCAL
variables
then ... presumably you can access those eg SYS_APPS settings via the
standard OpenStep API to get paths ? ... they won't work on other
OpenStep
systems though and the paths you get from the API calls aren't much
use
unless you have code that deals differently with all the types of
system
you can work on ... eg, once I'm told that SYS_APPS is //C/Windows (is
that the location of system binaries in Windows ?), I need to have
heavily
platform-dependent code to know what to do with that path, eg which
executables I can find in that path! At which point the benefit of
having
the API giving you SYS_APPS is lost, isn't it ?
Maybe someone has got a good example of how those are used ?
Personally I'd vote for removing SYS_APPS etc. entirely from the API.