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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 08:55:40 IST
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- From: "J-P Takala, University of Helsinki,
- Sociology" <JTAKALA@FINUHA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Running XPL programs
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- Tony,
- I still cannot run xpl-programs by their short name only unless their
- location is in the DOS path. In my NBCUSTOM.SET, there is, loud and clear,
- NBIP=C:/NB4/XPL/ (slashes reversed)
- and that is where the programs are. That notwithstanding, 'run pgm.rn'
- will not work, unless 'C:/NB4/XPL' is in the DOS path.
- This does seem funny, and--if you really can do it without the help of
- the DOS path--maybe this is one of those things that are a bit unfinished
- in some shipped versions and fixed in others. I would think that one
- of the main ideas of asking for a default directory for XPL-pgms would
- be to help NB to find the programs automatically (yes, the menu system
- does know how to use the NBIP= line, but that is far too slow for programs
- you often use and know by heart).
-
- j-p takala
-
- Tony Woozley wrote:
-
- > You can have your XPL programs in any subdirectory you want and set a
- > default path for them. I have all mine (both for NB4 and for NB3) in a
- > subdirectory of NB3, and run them from NB4 just by using the
- > filename. As an example: when in the NB4 subdirectory I want
- > to run a progranm called AMPERSAN.RUN, using the full path it would
- > be (slashes reversed here): 'run c:/nb/prgrm/ampersan.run'. But all
- > I have to enter is 'run ampersan.run'. I don't remember how I set
- > it up (must have been via one of those long threads through the menu),
- > but the result is a line in NBCUSTOM.SET, which reads
- > NBIP=C:/NB/PRGRM/
-