Re: Setting default save directory

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

Another tactic: put "SET APPEND=%PATH%" in your autoexec.bat.

Then, if your PATH includes the XYW directory (plausible enough)
and if STARTUP.INT is in that directory (also plausible) or
anywhere else along your path, then XyWrite can be started up
without problem from any directory on your machine. STARTUP.INT
will always be found.


----Original Message Follows----
From: Robert Holmgren 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite 
Subject: Re: Setting default save directory
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:00:59 -0400

** Reply to message from "Judd Antin"  on Mon, 22
Jul

2002 10:51:36 -0400

XyWrite opens in the directory you are located in when you start XyWrite.
Now

*normally* you start XyWrite in its own directory -- the directory where
EDITOR.EXE is located -- so that it can find STARTUP.INT, which should be in
the
same directory as EDITOR. Automatically XyWrite looks for STARTUP.INT when
it

launches.

Suppose XyWrite is in D:\XY3. Suppose your current directory location is
C:\WINDOWS. if you command:

D:\XY4\EDITOR.EXE

Xy3 will launch, will proclaim that it can't find STARTUP.INT, and will use
its
own internal defaults to get going. Current directory will be C:\WINDOWS.
Any
SAving you do will be to C:\WINDOWS -- but your installation will be
crippled
because none of your customized variables have been absorbed (your keyboard
file

is an obvious example).

So of course normally you start in D:\XY3, so that you don't have these
errors.
If you want to establish more-or-less permanently a different directory as
your
default dir and SAve dir, then just add a couple of commands at the bottom
of
STARTUP.INT, *after* STARTUP has successfully loaded all the files it needs
from
the main Xy3 directory. Suppose you wish E:\JUDD to be your default (SAve)
dir.

You would add:

...BC e:XC BC cd \juddXC ...

near the end of the file, e.g. just before the terminal ≪EX≫. Note that
"BC " and "XC " above are true functions. Thereafter, at any time, change
the

default dir, if you wish, per Fred Gross's msg.

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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