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- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 21:57:49 IST
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- From: "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
- Subject: Re: NB4 and disk space
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- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 8 Oct 92 11:42:17 -0400 from <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
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- Re: various NB versions on one disk
-
- You can have as many NB versions as you only like, on condition
- that you write a specific batch file for each version so that
- the other version's subdirectory will not be accessible to it.
- If it is, it may cause some harm, since there are files with
- similar names, at least until version 3.1. With 4.0, all
- major filenames have been changed, presumably to prevent such
- errors.
-
- To do that, you must put a different PATH definition in the
- respective batch files.
-
- However, you can save a lot of space by putting commonly
- usable files in one sub(sub)directory accessible to ALL versions.
- Such files are the spellers, thesaurus, various HELP screens,
- and definitely XPL written pgms (with a few exceptions).
- then into some sub-subdorectory which will aleways stay in the
-
- Of course you cannot put all of the versions in one and the same
- subdirectory. You must decide which will be in ¢NB, and which
- will be in differently named subdirectories. I keep 3.1 in ¢NB,
- while 3.0 is located in ¢NB0, and NB 4.0 in ¢LN (=lingua).
- I've put the speller, thsaurus, etc in ¢NB¢NB, which stays
- accessible to all versions alike.
-
- You need a lot of space for all that. 4.0 takes over 1.3;
- if you use Orbis, it creates a whole set of files which take
- much space. With 600K you cannot afford even thinking of
- installing any extra pgm, I'm afraid.
-
- Itamar E-Z
-
- PS. 4DOS users can have a look at my batch files (stored in
- ez-tm03.zip) for switching versions. There are various extra
- precaustions that can be taken, such as preventing you from
- trying to load a version when any NB version is already
- loaded, etc. (In the case of 4.0 lingua, the computer will
- get stuck if you do.)
-