Re: Re file

[Mark Garvey dutch_garvey@xxxxxxxx]

I forgot to say, in my last note, that the value of DR
when checked from the command line IS showing the
directory I specified as the default DR. The fact
remains, though, that I still can't open that 135K
file.
thx,
Mark

--- Carl Distefano  wrote:
>
> Reply to note from Mark Garvey
>  Sun, 28 Mar
> 2004 12:19:41 -0800 (PST)
>
> > the default DR tweak to my startup.int didn't seem
> to take
>
> Sounds unlikely, if you've got the command right.
> In any case you
> can verify whether it's "taken" or not by CAlling a
> file and issuing
> VA DR from the CMline. In Draft view (or any other
> view except
> eXPanded) the resulting embedded command should
> display the default
> DR directory established in STARTUP.INT.
>
> XyQuest used to recommend that the Default DR
> command be located in
> the first line of STARTUP.INT. You might try that
> (can't hurt,
> might help), though this is more a matter of good
> housekeeping (to
> keep all of Editor's swap files together in the same
> directory) than
> a sine qua non to execute the command. It's even
> possible (though
> who would do it?) to change the DR setting in the
> middle of an
> editing session, even if the reverse-video X is
> displayed on the far
> right of the PRoMPT line (indicating that one or
> more swap files has
> been created since the session began) -- unless
> Editor happens to be
> reading or writing to a swap file at the moment you
> attempt to
> execute the D DR command. That would be a rare
> coincidence, but it
> may be what XyQuest's recommendation was intended to
> avoid.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
>


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