Re: Loading files at startup in III+

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Phil Smith wrote:

> At 07:45 AM 12/30/97 EST, Tim Baehr wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > I believe that Xy3 looks only in its current directory for STARTUP.INT.
>
> Indeed. That is my experience. I have Xy4 in one DOS subdirectory, Xy3 in
> another. If I invoke Xy4 from its own subdirectory, I get ITS own
> STARTUP.INT. (If I invoke Xy3 from that subdirectory I get mayhem). No
> reason why different versions of Xy3 or Xy4 couldn't be kept in their own
> subdirectories, I should think. Of course, watch out for the PATH: if a
> STARTUP.INT is in the path it may get invoked rather than the one you want.
>

Indeed. A quick & dirty DOS workaround is to create two batch files,
called, say, 3.bat and 4.bat. That way you can have _both_ directories
in the path statement and you should remain mayhem free.

3.bat might look like this:

@echo off
cls
cd c:\xy3
editor

And 4.bat could be the same except for cd'ing you to xy4, rather than
xy3.
No doubt the cyberspirits who here indwell will e-mail you with fancier,
more elegant solutions complete with directions on how to download them
from their own personal websites. Fine. But the above will work. Used it
for years until Windows 95 came along.

> Of course, I am a DOS person; don't know how all this would work with XyWin.
>

Not.


Cheers!

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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