Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Yes, Deposite Pirate: I am pretty sure this is some ugly workaround by whoever maintained OpenGEM. The location of GEM directories such as GEMAPPS and GEMSYS and so on was however somewhat hardcoded. I kept getting CHDIR errors about GEMAPPS\GEMSYS. And these were generated from all over

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Deposite Pirate
January 27, 2021 6:59 PM, "Bryan Kilgallin" wrote: > I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it > assumes that I didn't put > the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it cross-references jumps between > batch files in an opaque > way. And the writes to screen do not

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
I wrote: I presume that I was responding to instruction here like "Put it where you feel like." I found it here. {But even if you don't have FDIMPLES, you can still install packages "manually." Just unzip them and put the files wherever you like. That's the nice thing about DOS - everything

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Well, Dennis: Out of curiosity, how much confusion might have been avoided if you had placed the OpenGEM directory where the code assumed it would be? I suppose it would work right. (And why *didn't* you place it there?) I presume that I was responding to instruction here like "Put it

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/27/2021 10:32 AM, dmccunney wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM Bryan Kilgallin wrote: I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it assumes that I didn't put the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it cross-references jumps between batch files in an opaque

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > > I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it > assumes that I didn't put the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it > cross-references jumps between batch files in an opaque way. And the > writes to screen do not

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
I wrote: I have been editing the OpenGEM code. Correction: it's the SETUP labyrinth that I've been documenting for myself. It still doesn't work (say colourising the GEM window). But I'm finding my way around the modules, and correcting the jump-to locations. --

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread geneb
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it assumes that I didn't put the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it cross-references jumps between batch files in an opaque way. And the writes to screen do not say where you

Re: [Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Michael Powell
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:59 PM Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it > assumes that I didn't put the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it > cross-references jumps between batch files in an opaque way. And the > writes to screen do not

[Freedos-user] Spaghetti

2021-01-27 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it assumes that I didn't put the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it cross-references jumps between batch files in an opaque way. And the writes to screen do not say where you are in this maze! Please would coders allow