Stan Goodman wrote: > > 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. >
You are quite correct. You gotta to love OS/2 when there are so many ways to skin the cat. If you got Dragtext installed or Xworkplace, you can set the environment in each program object to have the beginlibpath and path defined. Set the working directory and full path as you have done works. You don't need entries into the libpath or path statements. -- Bill <Okay, you win>
