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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: Running XPL programs
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- In-Reply-To: <18012.9212182317@cen.ex.ac.uk>; from "Cora A. Diamond" at Dec
- 18,92 6:08 pm
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- Cora A. Diamond (aka Tony Woozley) wrote........
- >
- >
- > You can have your XPL programs in any subdirectory you want and set a
- > default path for them. I have all mine (both for NB4 and for NB3) in a
- > subdirectory of NB3, and run them from NB4 just by using the
- > filename. As an example: when in the NB4 subdirectory I want
- > to run a progranm called AMPERSAN.RUN, using the full path it would
- > be (slashes reversed here): 'run c:/nb/prgrm/ampersan.run'. But all
- > I have to enter is 'run ampersan.run'. I don't remember how I set
- > it up (must have been via one of those long threads through the menu),
- > but the result is a line in NBCUSTOM.SET, which reads
- > NBIP=C:/NB/PRGRM/
- >
- >
-
- I think that Tony is assuming we all know more than we actually do.
- The line he has added to nbcustom.set clearly does the trick, but how
- does he know how to add it? Can we have details on the syntax? I have
- been wondering about this, because it may explain that a "deprovement"
- I'd feared is no such thing. Is access to pgms and to other features
- such as boilerplate and spellers etc related?
-
- Paths in nbcustom.set are clearly be important. /nb4/boiler/s set a
- single path for files with the extension .bpl in a single
- subdirectory, as I for one learned last week; but I had begun to think
- that ALL boilerplate files had to be in the same subdirectory. It
- seems to follow from what Tony says that it is in fact possible to
- create further sub-directories each with its own path in
- nbcustom.set(I would like to separate domestic addresses from bits of
- text for student handouts, for example); but how does one get at them
- via menus? Is it possible to create paths at will with the syntax
- NB?P=C:/NB4/subdirectory/ where ? and "subdirectory" are related??
-
- And no, I don't mean through the use of merge, as someone has asked.
- Boilerplate files doubtless use merge behind the scenes, but it's the
- menu-ed access and the list of files (which vaguely resembles a
- directory but is not) which is the characteristic which made v. 3 so
- useful. There, if you look at the manual, you'll see that all files
- with the same extension, the last character of which was a hyphen, could
- be grouped in one subdirectory and would be accessible to select from
- a list. Very useful; but now, is everything to be in \nb4\boiler\ and
- to have .bpl - and nothing else? How better than to call this a
- deprovement - and I hope I'm wrong.
-
- And Tony Woozley seems to hint that I might be?
-
- Incidentally, in the "wouldn't it be nice department"..... files can be
- displayed in date order in directories - I like this and use it; but
- in \nb4\boiler\ they then come up thusly.... but addresses are more
- logically sorted alphabetically..... could somebody suggest to NBI
- that this would be a neat touch to a useful feature?
-
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