In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I've just checked the zip files on the QHelp master very carefully, and >there is *no* menu_rext. More to the point, the boot supplied does not >load it: just ptr_gen, wman, qlib_run, and hot_rext -- all of which I >have! Is DIR_SELECT$ really part of menu_rext? > >So the problem remains: why does QHelp complain that DIR_SELECT$ is a >bad name now under an emulator, when it ran perfectly well on a black >box? > >When I got my QL in 198? I was impressed by how much easier to use it >was than my PC at work. Nowadays I'm constantly noticing how much easier >Linux is! For anyone who's wrestled with installing QL Lynx, compare the >Linux installation: just type "rpm -i Lynx". And then the QL version >needs half a dozen environment variables set every time you run it. I've >never needed to set an environment variable for a Linux program. It >seems that as other computers have got simpler, the QL has got more >confusing (and confused). Yes, Lynx is not easy to install when you first come across it, although not that difficult as an example boot file, if I remember, it is provided that with a simple alteration ( or not ) of the device name; it then works. It is derived from the Linux OS world, anyway. The environment variables are just a way setting up some defaults on the machine that are then there to use. This is done "outside" of a program, so that they have a global effect. They are quite nice to use when you get the hang of it. Again, as an example, I use these two in my boot file : 410 : 420 REMark Load Environment variables 430 LRESPR windrive$ & '_env_bin' 440 REMark Set for Qascade with 'malmenu' 450 SETENV "QASCADE_RC=windrive$ & '_qascade_qascade_malmenu'" 460 REMark Set Path for MicroEMACS 470 SETENV "PATH=windrive$ &'_emacs_emacs';windrive$;flp1_" 480 REMark Set ink colour for MicroEMACS 490 SETENV "EMACS_MDINK=4" 500 : -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
