Hello hggdh, Thursday, October 28, 2004, 1:29:38 PM, you wrote:
h> My own twopence: Yes, moving on to MSIs hase made testing betas much h> more difficult. And, yes, RL should help on this. And, YES, MaXxX is h> within reason with his request. h> And, now that I understand MaXxX's problem better, I do agree that RL h> should provide something that will allow two instances of TB! to be h> used. With due care -- for example, by setting the second (beta) one h> *not* to delete POP3 messages from teh server, one would be able even h> to concurrently run the "production" and the beta without impact. Of h> course, this still requires one to duplicate the message base, but h> this (I think) is a small problem. h> And, again I stress, it is up to RL to state HOW to do this. I have not tried this recently with TB (I use a separate machine for my testing these days), but here is something that has worked in the past for some programs. I will assume that the initial install is in C:/pgm-files/TheBat and the data is in C:/docs/TheBat. Rename those two directories to something like "OldBat" then install the new Beta version. Assume it is set up to use the same two directories, C:/pgm-files/TheBat and C:/docs/TheBat. Fine. Now all you need are two batch files. These will remane the associated directories. So Use-Old.bat will rename C:/pgm-files/TheBat to C:/pgm-files/BetaBat and C:/docs/TheBat to C:/docs/BetaBat then rename C:/pgm-files/OldBat to C:/pgm-files/TheBat and C:/docs/OldBat back to C:/docs/TheBat. And Use-Beta.bat will rename C:/pgm-files/TheBat to C:/pgm-files/OldBat and C:/docs/TheBat to C:/docs/OldBat then rename C:/pgm-files/BetaBat to C:/pgm-files/TheBat and C:/docs/BetaBat back to C:/docs/TheBat. To be safe, I would put tests that would make sure that the directories were in the appropriate configuration for the requested change or display a message. You could not run both at the same time this way (dangerous in any event) but gives you an easy way to switch between the two that should not have problems ... unless there are incompatible registry entries. In which case you could set about to "fix" those, but that is more difficult and risky. I have found the separate install on a "test machine" to be much safer. -- Best regards, MikeD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v3.0.2.1 on Windows ME 4.90 Build 3000 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.2.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
