Re: Re file

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

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
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