> Remember the tale, Paddy, when asked for directions said "Oh no ! If 
> I was
> going there I would not start from here."
OK, point taken.

> So why invoke Windows applications with DOS ?
>
> W98 & XP will suggest opening a folder to view files - do that -
That will be the "normal" way of doing things, I just thought putting 
a simple batch file in was a quick way for people to start it until I 
can figure out how to do a decent simple Windoze front end for the QL 
On A Stick.

The way it is at the moment, the drive letters are irrelevant because 
the batch file in the root, everything is relative addressed from 
there and it seems to work so far.

> Be warned that the Stick may come up with different drive letters, 
> this
> will throw into confusion any config routine, certainly in 
> Qemulator.
QemuLator runs and saves its configuration OK. There was an unexpected 
problem I ran into:

I have a registered QemuLator on my hard disk in the usual Windows 
Program Files location.

I then ran its setup.exe and decompressed a copy to the memory stick. 
When I started it, shock horror, it came up as a 'registered' version. 
So I unregistered it, and lo and behold my own registered copy also 
unregistered. Whichever you registered or unregistered, both did so at 
the same time, so obviously QemuLator is finding its registration info 
in a fixed location, probably in the usual C:\program files\qemulator\

> Not to mention when inserted in another machine, the serial code 
> needs
> re-entering for Qem' atleast.
Not a problem for 'Ql On A Stick' at least since I only provide the 
unregistered version, but you are correct of course, when a user gets 
a registration code from Daniele this will be the case.

Sadly, QemuLator is the only one causing any significant problem at 
the moment.

Has anyone used Phoebus's uQLX for Windows? I've never used it to know 
if it's worth adding to the stick.
-- 
Dilwyn Jones

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