On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:02:00, "William L. Hartzell" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:

> Sir:
> 
> Dave Parsons wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > It is not defined now. IIRC it was with eCS preview 1. Even so it seems
> > reasonable to assume that it would only update the version that
> > MOZILLA_HOME pointed to, not all copies.
> > 
> 
> The purpose of Mozilla_Home is to point to where to place your profile
> data (e-mail, bookmarks, preferences, etc.).  Once you've defined it,
> then all versions/copies of Mozilla, Web Explorer knows where your stuff
> is and can update it.  This prevents your losing an E-mail in a version
> that you've deleted because it has been updated.  Put it back.  It has
> nothing to do with updating a version or finding the current distro that
> you may be using. 
> 
> If you wish to have more than one copy of Mozilla/Web Explorer around,
> then you need to wrap each (each exe) of them in their own cmd file with
> a set beginlibpath statement that points to their own bin folder.

That may be overkill. In my ignorance, I have not done that (no CMD 
files at all), yet I have three versions that I can run: Web Explorer,
0.9.5 and 0.9.6.

Each version is run directly from a program object, e.g.:

path and filename: D:\MOZILLA096\BIN\MOZILLA.EXE
working directory: D:\MOZILLA096\BIN

Nothing more.

MOZILLA_HOME is defined, and only one copy of the profiles is 
maintained, but updating JAVA did, as I have said, automatically place
a separate copy of the updated plugins file NPOIJ6.DLL in each of the 
three PLUGINS directories. In other words, npoji6.dll is NOT treated 
as an element of the profile.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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