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- Subject: Re: A bug in EPM/Workframe and a workaround.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.043456.8522@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: DEMOGRB@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BAKER,Gavin)
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:34:56 GMT
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- Organization: La Trobe University
- In-Reply-To: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca's message of 3 Jan 1993 22:30:06 GMT
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- In <1i7pdeINNi7c@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca writes:
-
- > Hi All,
- >
- > A while ago I got the WorkSet/2 package (gotta love those promotional deals :-)
- > and just today got around to playing with it. I went through the tutorial
- > fine, except when I got to the part about moving the cursor over printf and
- > typing ctl-h (in EPM) to get help for it.
- >
- > Well, I was puzzled, since the install program had put the environment
- > variable
- >
- > SET HELPNDX=DDE4.NDX+EPMKWHLP.NDX
- >
- > (or something like that) into my config.sys for me when I had installed it some-
- > time ago.
- >
- > I played around a bit and finally got the online help to work by putting the
- > full path names of the two files in question into that environment variable
- > and restarting. For the record, I had installed to drive d, but left all other
- > options alone.
- >
- > I don't know if this was a known bug before I found it, but if it wasn't, it is
- > now. If it was, is there a fix (in the form of a CSD) I can apply to correct
- > this?
- > --
- > Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca
- >
- > "It's raining cats? You open the skylight, I'll get the relish."
- > -- Alf
-
-
- Well, this is not a bug at all. It's just the setup - if you check the readme
- that came with the toolkit, it says to add C:\TOOLKT20\BOOK to your DPATH
- so it can find the files. If you do this, you shouldn't need absolute paths
- in the env. variable.
-
- Rgds,
-
- Gavin
- /\/\
-
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