I have done it in autoexec.bat.will someoone please give me a correct answer which wil lwork. sartaj
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 Alan Horkan wrote : > > if you open a command window and type > set HOME=c:\home > it will only work temporarily > > you probably need to add the line > set HOME=c:\home > to autoexec.bat > for it to be permanent > > In theory i think > c:\windows\Profiles\username\Application Data\ > or > c:\windows\Application Data\ > are where Microsoft expects applications to put this > kind of information > (but if you try that the spaces in the filenames might > cause problems) > i think maybe there are some registry variables dia > could lookup instead > of using the HOME variable from the shell. > I have been meaning to look it up and submit a patch > ... but then there > are lots of things i have been meaning to do but never > get around to > > Sincerely > Alan > > On 6 Feb 2002, sartajsingh wrote: > > > > but I really dont have a "home" directory . > its says set to valid directory or existing directory. > can I set it to ANY existing any without worring > about the path. > I use windows. > can I do set HOME=c:\ or somethign like that. > sartaj > > On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 Cyrille Chepelov wrote : > > Le Wed, Feb 06, 2002, à 01:42:21PM -0000, sartajsingh > a > > écrit: > > > > > > I dont have a home directory > > > I did set HOME=c:\home in autoexec.bat and when > > > I run dia it says home doesnt exist and soem other > > > line number errors. > > > > > > if you set HOME=c:\home, c:\home MUST exist. If you > set > > HOME to something > > else, that "something else" MUST be a valid path to an > > existing directory. > > The HOME variable SHOULD exist, and if it does, it > MUST > > point to *a* valid > > directory. Any directory. > > > > -- Cyrille > > > > -- > > Grumpf. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dia-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dia-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
