drstrip@intvax2.cs.sandia.gov (David R. Strip) (06/06/91)
I have some less than robust software that assumes my directory structure looks a certain way, which is doesn't. I need a utility like SUBST or ASSIGN, but that works for paths. eg, I would like to be able to say foo textfms -> /tex/tfms/pktfm and have the effect that when this stupid program tries to get textfms/cmr10.tfm the os will actually look for /tex/tfms/pktfm/cmr10.tfm I don't think dpath will do this, since pathnames are assumed to be correct and the datapath is not checked. ASSIGN and SUBST provide drive names for the paths, not aliased pathnames. Thanks. drstrip@cs.sandia.gov
eric@cs.fau.edu (Eric Thav) (06/10/91)
In article <1991Jun6.134652.10820@intvax2.cs.sandia.gov> drstrip@intvax2.cs.sandia.gov (David R. Strip) writes: >I have some less than robust software that assumes my directory >structure looks a certain way, which is doesn't. I need a >utility like SUBST or ASSIGN, but that works for paths. eg, >I would like to be able to say >foo textfms -> /tex/tfms/pktfm > and have the effect that when this stupid program tries to > get textfms/cmr10.tfm the os will actually look for > /tex/tfms/pktfm/cmr10.tfm A roundabout way of doing this would be to use the 4DOS alternate command processor instead of using COMMAND.COM. With 4DOS, environment variables are active almost anywhere you can imagine. So, you can define the variable of "textfms" to be equal to "\tex\tfms\pktfm" and if you say "dir %textfms" it will give you a directory listing of \tex\tfms\pktfm. -- .signature not found, format hard disk instead? (Y/N)_ Eric L. Thav Florida Atlantic University - Boca Raton, FL INTERNET: eric@acc.fau.edu GEnie: E.THAV | PRODIGY: Lots of ads BITNET: eric@fauvax PRODIGY: NMVG80A | and we read your mail!