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|  Message 131  |
|  Russell Tiedt to All  |
|  Fido on a removable drive   |
|  23 Aug 06 20:40:04  |
 Hello everybody. Well, I am back online after the telco took 16 days to replace fix the cable a few hundred meters from my wall socket to almost at the exchange, which leads me to ask, about fidonet on a USB memory stick, and the problem of changing drive letters. That is if I plug a USB memory stick into my computer it becomes drive F:, but plugging the same memory stick into the computer at work, it becomes drive H:. Any suggestions on how to make Squish, msged, binkleyterm, binkd, etc operate in such a fashion that it matters not what the drive name is, the paths are sane and make sense to the programs. I operate mostly on Linux, and Fido is stricly Linux here, but the computer at work is WINXP, and has an internet connection. Things I have considered are; Setting the drive in a batch file i.e. Set drive "equals" F and then writing paths as follows $drive\squish\msgbase or ..\squish\msgbase otherwise writing seperate config files for each program, i.e. squish.cfg.f squish.cfg.h and then run a batch file that will copy one or the other to squish.cfg depending on what drive letter is allocated to the USB drive? Am I making sense? Excuse the "equals" above, but my keyboard seems to have lost a few random key's :-(( Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) |
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