jchen@violet.waterloo.edu (Jinhua Chen) (04/16/91)
I haven't figured out where to put the "elvis.rc" and what envrionment variables to set for (I have no problem if I put it in the working dirctory. But this is not the question). Your help is greatly appreciated. Jinhua Chen.
bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) (04/17/91)
| I haven't figured out where to put the "elvis.rc" and what envrionment | variables to set for (I have no problem if I put it in the working | dirctory. But this is not the question). Your help is greatly | appreciated. | | Jinhua Chen. I have found that the simplest approach is to make a subdirectory (I call mine "c:\etc") which contains various configuration files such as elvis.rc, and use the APPEND command to ensure that files in that directory can always be found. Things like Borland .BGI files also go into \etc. There are public-domain alternatives, such as DPATH30 and SEARCH13 (might be at other version numbers by now) which have worked for me with versions of MSDOS that didn't have "APPEND". You can set the environment variable EXINITRC to contain some options, such as wrapmargin, but I think elvis.rc is a more flexible method.
mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr16.124029.26688@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jchen@violet.waterloo.edu (Jinhua Chen) writes: >I haven't figured out where to put the "elvis.rc" and what envrionment >variables to set for (I have no problem if I put it in the working >dirctory. But this is not the question). Your help is greatly >appreciated. I had trouble figuring out that I needed to create a \TMP directory on my hard drive to avoid fatal "cannot create temp file" errors. Then I found that I could initialize from an ELVIS.RC file, but only if it was in the current directory. Then I set EXINIT=:so c:\elvis\elvis.rc (which was where I put the initialization file) and it worked in any directory. But I still would like to have docs. Martin B. Brilliant hoqax!marty (Winnertech Corporation) HO 2J-528 (908)949-1215 -- Martin B. Brilliant hoqax!marty (Winnertech Corporation) HO 2J-528 (908)949-1215