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. 

 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....

 Thanks,

Russell

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