Jacqueline Landman Gay escribi�:
>
>> - in locked media, there is a problem with the path on Windows 98, not in
>> NT, if the application is on the root level of the cd-rom. So, you have to
>> put the application and its data inside a folder, and then make an alias of
>> it at the root level.
>
> Could you explain more what the problem is? I have made a CD with the
> application at the root level and it seems to work in Win98 but I don't
> want to have unexpected problems later. What happens?
>
In my case, different substacks load images and/or text from different
subdirectories on the cd-rom, so I put the first path to the executable when
it opens into a global, and then set the (new) directory to the relative
paths of the physical subdirectories when the substacks need it.
All this worked fine on a Mac. When I passed to a Win machine it also worked
but not perfectly (it was a NT), but it became crazy when a cdrom was burned
on a Win 98: substacks did not find the correct path to the subdirectories.
I am not sure why, but there was an old message on the list regarding
problems with the root level on Windows --I have reproduced it below. The
problem stopped when I moved the application and its data to a folder and
make an alias of the application.
Regards,
Jose L. Rodriguez Illera
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Here is the message:
From: "Claude Lemmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Referencing a Windows CD
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:10:54 +0100
> >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine?
> >This returns false:
> > there is a directory "D:/"
>Yes but
>there is a directory "D://" ... returns true
>That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS.
>At the beginning of the story, DOS returns "d:\" (with a final "\") for a
>volume and
>"d:\myDir" (without a final "\") for directories.
>An important consequence of this bug : never put MetaCard at the root of your
>disk.
>If you install MetaCard at the root c:/mc.exe
>open it
>put the filename of this stack -> c://mchome.mc (yes, 2 slashes)
>An other consequence : if you put MetaCard at the root, it is fooled and needs
>between 20 and 30 seconds to open the script window ...
>Claude Lemmel
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