Re: Status, Portable

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Wed, 19
Jun 2002 15:32:36 -0400

Patricia:

> A while back Carl posted a neat little item called
> portable.int, which was supposed to let you run XyWrite from
> any directory. But apparently not any drive. I cannot get it to
> work when the drive is not specified in Startup.int and
> settings.dfl. Am I doing something wrong?

You may not be doing anything wrong. In fact, looking at
PORTABLE.INT now, I see that I did something wrong: assumed that the
the drive and directory with EDITOR.EXE is the same as the current
drive and directory (as returned by ), which of course they
need not be, even while STARTUP.INT is running. If you're not
logged on to the drive and directory with EDITOR.EXE when
PORTABLE.INT kicks in, it won't work.

I've revised PORTABLE.INT to correct this problem, so you can either
grab it again, at http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/portable.zip,
or DECODE the patch below and substitute it in your copy of
PORTABLE.INT for the line that looks like this:

>;*;

If that doesn't do it, then I'd double-check that all of the path
statements in your edited copy of PORTABLE.INT are correct, and that
all path statements in SETTINGS.DFL have been disabled (deleted or
;;;commented out).

If you're still having problems, send me a private message and we'll
figure it out. This *does* work.

Here's the patch:

XPLeNCODE v2.0
b-gin [UNTITLED]
;*; Save {<}VA$ED{>} directory to Save/Get 01:[cr|lf]{<}SV01,
{>}{<}SX02,{<}VA$ED{>}{>}{<}SV03,\{>}{<}LB*{>}{<}XS02,03,04,,
05{>}{<}IF{<}VA|01{>}>0{>}{<}SX01,{<}IS01{>}+"\"{>}{<}EI{>}{<
}SX01,{<}IS01{>}+{<}IS04{>}{>}{<}IF{<}IS05{>}{240}"\"{>}{<}SX
02,{<}IS05{>}{>}{<}GL*{>}{<}EI{>};*;[cr|lf];*;[cr|lf]
-nd
XPLeNCODE

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Carl Distefano
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