Subj : Fido on a removable drive
To : Bob Jones
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Thu Aug 24 2006 05:02 pm
Hello Bob.
23 Aug 06 11:17, you wrote to me:
RT>> Any suggestions on how to make Squish, msged,
RT>> binkleyterm, binkd, etc operate
RT>> in such a fashion that it matters not what the drive
RT>> name is, the paths are
RT>> sane and make sense to the programs.
BJ> Most of the squish, binkleyterm, and I think even binkd control files
BJ> can be set up with relative paths specified. There may be one or two
BJ> spots where it may need a drive letter defined in a windows or OS/2
BJ> type environment.
Hmmm ... , so it should be do-able ...
RT>> Things I have considered are;
RT>> Setting the drive in a batch file i.e.
RT>> Set drive "equals" F
RT>> and then writing paths as follows
RT>> $drive\squish\msgbase
RT>> or ..\squish\msgbase
BJ> Games like this work in batch files, but not necessarily in the
BJ> control files.
Okay, batch files are fine, like this, if the control files will work with
relative paths, then that would work ...
RT>> otherwise writing seperate config files for each program, i.e.
RT>> squish.cfg.f
RT>> squish.cfg.h
BJ> Use relative paths for most of the stuff in the control files, share
BJ> the common control information in one file, and then in use an include
BJ> statement in the drive specific control file which should have very
BJ> few lines..... That is if you can not get by with using all paths in
BJ> the control files without drive letters and have the batch file set
BJ> the default drive to the memory stick before processing....
Okay ... sounds like it should be do-able
RT>> and then run a batch file that will copy one or the other to
RT>> squish.cfg depending on what drive letter is allocated to the USB
RT>> drive?
RT>> Am I making sense?
BJ> In some ways.
Good, so I am not yet toally insane. <VVBG>
BJ> Over the years of expanding disk drive capacity and need to move drive
BJ> letters around, I tend to now have my batch files setup to use an
BJ> enivornment parameter for both the drive letter and the base path.
BJ> Control files still have too much hard coded in this regard, but are
BJ> kept in a form where I can perform a one shot edit of the control
BJ> files to change the drive and/or base path specification with a
BJ> simple, global edit.....
Right ...
BJ> Good luck....
<BG> Thanks,
Russell
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