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Re: Installing



Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Tue,
9 Apr 2002 14:01:36 -0400

> So the best thing to do is to install onto a machine
> running...DOS..., add every printer driver you can, then copy
> that setup to a ZIP disk or a CD and copy it over onto the
> hard drive....

Absolutely, the only way to go. But to make Xy freely COPYable,
you need to move hard-coded path settings out of SETTINGS.DFL
and code them as relative paths in STARTUP.INT. Then you're
home-free. You can download a template for this at
http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/portable.zip.

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Carl Distefano
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