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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA07203 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 26 May 1995 03:23:24 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id EAA21838; Fri, 26 May 1995 04:23:17 -0600 Received: by mailhost (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sEwWh-000YblC; Fri, 26 May 95 04:21 MDT Message-Id: <m0sEwWh-000YblC@mailhost> Date: Fri, 26 May 95 04:21 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) To: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) Cc: mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com (Gene McCulley), executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: HFV files In-Reply-To: <m0sEfF8-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> References: <9505250440.AA36053@greatwall.cctt.com> <m0sEfF8-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Mat" == Mat Hostetter <mat@ardi.com> writes: >>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com> writes: Gene> I downloaded the nihimage.hfv file and placed it in my Gene> /usr/local/lib/executor directory. Now what? I don't see Gene> it when I fire up executor. I must have to do something Gene> else, but I have no clue what it is. I have tried with and Gene> without the environment variable that points to the system Gene> folder in my home directory. Mat> You can say this in your .bashrc: Mat> export MacVolumes=/usr/local/lib/executor/nihimage.hfv Mat> This environment variable is a semicolon-separated list of Mat> hfv's (and devices, if you want). I use a similar line to Mat> let me use an hfv I keep in my Linux home directory. Actually, if the MacVolumes environment variable isn't altered, all that Gene needs to do is put nihimage.hfv in /usr/local/lib/executor and the right thing will happen automatically. An explanation follows. Under both DOS and Linux If you don't set the MacVolumes environment variable at all, it will default to "+/exsystem.hfv;+". The part before the semi-colon means that the first HFV file that will be opened is exsystem.hfv in the Executor Library Directory. The Executor Library Directory is /usr/local/lib/executor under UNIX and C:\EXECUTOR (or wherever you install Executor) under DOS. The "+" which follows the semi-colon then tells Executor that any HFV file with an extension of ".hfv" that is found in the Executor Library Directory should also be mounted as an HFV file. It's because of this additional "+" that Gene, and other E/L users, can just drop the .hfv file in /usr/local/lib/executor without modifying anything. On one of our Linux systems, we use the command export MacVolumes="+;/dev/sdb" to tell Executor that in addition to looking for .hfv files in /usr/local/lib/executor, our second SCSI drive should also be considered an HFV, so we can attach an external Mac formatted SCSI drive and use that too. Usually we hook up a 1 gig formatted Mac drive for testing purposes. Under DOS, we don't have to do anything special to see the SCSI drive, because E/D and E/L have slightly different rules about how they look for Mac formatted SCSI drives. In essense, E/D looks for you and E/L needs to be told. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com