RT> about fidonet on a USB memory stick, and the problem of changing drive    
    RT> letters.   
      
    RT> That is if I plug a USB memory stick into my computer    
    RT> it becomes drive F:, but    
    RT> plugging the same memory stick into the computer at    
    RT> work, it becomes drive H:.   
      
    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.   
      
   Most of the squish, binkleyterm, and I think even binkd control files can be   
   set up with relative paths specified.  There may be one or two spots where it   
   may need a drive letter defined in a windows or OS/2 type environment.   
      
    RT> I operate mostly on Linux, and Fido is stricly Linux    
    RT> here, but the computer at    
    RT> work is WINXP, and has an internet connection.   
      
    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   
      
   Games like this work in batch files, but not necessarily in the control files.   
      
    RT> otherwise writing seperate config files for each program, i.e.   
      
    RT> squish.cfg.f   
    RT> squish.cfg.h   
      
   Use relative paths for most of the stuff in the control files, share the   
   common control information in one file, and then in use an include statement   
   in the drive specific control file which should have very few lines.....  That   
   is if you can not get by with using all paths in the control files without   
   drive letters and have the batch file set the default drive to the memory   
   stick before processing....   
      
    RT> and then run a batch file that will copy one or the other to squish.cfg    
    RT> depending on what drive letter is allocated to the USB drive?   
      
    RT> Am I making sense?   
      
   In some ways.     
      
   Over the years of expanding disk drive capacity and need to move drive letters   
   around, I tend to now have my batch files setup to use an enivornment   
   parameter for both the drive letter and the base path.  Control files still   
   have too much hard coded in this regard, but are kept in a form where I can   
   perform a one shot edit of the control files to change the drive and/or base   
   path specification with a simple, global edit.....   
      
   Good luck....   
      
   Bob Jones, 1:343/41   
      
      
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