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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 11:28:46 -0500
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- From: "Cora A. Diamond" <cad2m@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
- Subject: Running XPL programs
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- An answer to Mervyn's questions today. You can get set up paths for
- NB4 to find your data (text) files with this menu sequence: F1 S O F,
- and then R. For special files choose S instead of R. The path you
- should enter for XPL programs is on the bottom line of that screen.
- However, I no longer believe that that does the trick for *running*
- XPL programs, although it does for *calling* them as files. J-P
- Takala has pointed out to me that the running of XPL programs is
- determined by the DOS path, not NB's private path; and I think he is
- correct. I have been successful, as I previously stated, in running
- an XPL program from anywhere in NB4 just by the command 'run
- <filename>', but that turns out to be because I load NB4 via a batch
- file, that the opening line of that file is a new 'path=...' command
- that I set up specially for NB4, and that that path includes
- 'C:/NB/PRGRM;' The closing line of the batch file restores my normal
- DOS path.
-
- And, as far I know, there is nothing canonical about all those special
- subdirectories that NB4 insisted on creating during installation. For
- example, I don't use the SPELL subdirectory, because I already have
- all the .SPL files I want in my old NB3 subdirectory /NB/NB/, and I
- continue to use them from there.
-