1. Removable Drives
Howdy.
Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on removable
media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
Travis Beaty
Claude, Texas.
2. Re: Removable Drives
Mmm.. to make you go nuts =P
Best luck finishing the installer and thanks for doing it, it will be a
real facility for new users.
Best Regards,
Guillermo Bonvehí
--- Travis Beaty <travisbeaty at arn.net> wrote:
>
>
> Howdy.
>
> Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on
> removable
> media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
>
> Travis Beaty
> Claude, Texas.
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>
>
>
3. Re: Removable Drives
Travis,
I have a friend with a bootable CD-ROM drive. He has configured more than
one working system, OS, apps, everything he could pack into a CD image,
burned some CDs and boots from them. I don't see the advantages -guess he
did it just to see if it worked, but you should consider the possibility
that you could install without a hitch on a HD (like C:\), and the boot
drive could be a removable readonly device. Unlikely, but possible.
Gerardo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Beaty" <travisbeaty at arn.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: Removable Drives
>
>
> Howdy.
>
> Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on
removable
> media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
>
> Travis Beaty
> Claude, Texas.
>
>
>
4. Re: Removable Drives
>Howdy.
>
>Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on
>removable
>media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
>
>Travis Beaty
>Claude, Texas.
If someone had a large removable hard drive, they would probably install
lots of things on it. There are hard drives around that can hold 40 gig or
so and plug in a SCSI or firewire port, and if I had one I would probably
install Euphoria on it, so I wouldn't constantly have to transfer my files
from one computer to another on floppies.
5. Re: Removable Drives
On 26 Jun 2001, at 22:09, Travis Beaty wrote:
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>
> Howdy.
>
> Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on removable
> media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
Yes, if they don't have a puter at home and use an internet cafe or library
puter.
Kat
6. Re: Removable Drives
In message <0.1700008810.1552604994-738719082-993611632 at topica.com>,
Travis Beaty <travisbeaty at arn.net> writes
>
>Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on
>removable media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
Two PC's, one with an internet connection, the other without but with
all the kids' games on it, and a house full of kids. Kids finish
playing games and have a desperate desire for the net.connection for
their homework just as you get to the critical stage in your Euphoria
programme...
Actually, given the small space Euphoria takes up on a drive, I don't
think it's an issue. I must just get round to installing it on the
kids' games PC sometime.... 
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7. Re: Removable Drives
>Howdy.
>
>Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on removable
>media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
>
>Travis Beaty
>Claude, Texas.
Hi Travis,
Does removable media include a 1.44 megabyte 3 and a 1/2 inch DOS diskette?
I recently wondered (from a purely academic stand point if I could
create a MS-DOS 6.22 boot diskette and squeeze the public domain DOS
version of Euphoria onto it. Well after some fiddling it *is* possible
(way to go Rob) and here is a quick summary on how to do it:
>From DOS 6.22 format a floppy as follows:
FORMAT /S A:
Copy the following directories to A:
C:\EUPHORIA\BIN
C:\EUPHORIA\INCLUDE
Delete:
A:\EUPHORIA\BIN\EXW.EXE
as a Windows version of Euphoria on a DOS boot diskette makes no sense
(well not to me anyhow!)
Make sure that the floppy disk has the following file:
A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
and that it has entries similar to:
SET EUDIR=A:\EUPHORIA
SET PATH=%PATH%;A:\EUPHORIA\BIN
Now copy any Euphoria source you need to your floopy disk.
Boot from the floppy and at the A:\> prompt you can type:
EX PROGNAME.EX
to run the Euphoria program in file "PROGNAME.EX".
Now just because it's possible to get the DOS version of Euphoria onto a
bootable DOS diskette I don't think this usage is anywhere common enough
for a generic installer to be expected to do it and I sure don't want to
add to Travis' workload
That said I thought it would be useful to share the "manual" method for
doing so with the list.
Out of interest has anyone else gone down this path already? And if so why?
Regards,
FP.
8. Re: Removable Drives
Well, I have a 386 pc without any hard drive, so I used to boot from a
floppy with eu4 on it just to code.
It's nice but a little bit slow to do that.
--- freeplay at mailandnews.com wrote:
> >
> >Can anyone think of a reason why someone would install Euphoria on
> removable
> >media? I can't think of one, but just in case ...
> >
> >Travis Beaty
> >Claude, Texas.
>
> Hi Travis,
>
> Does removable media include a 1.44 megabyte 3 and a 1/2 inch DOS
> diskette?
>
> I recently wondered (from a purely academic stand point if I
> could
> create a MS-DOS 6.22 boot diskette and squeeze the public domain DOS
> version of Euphoria onto it. Well after some fiddling it *is*
> possible
> (way to go Rob) and here is a quick summary on how to do it:
>
> >From DOS 6.22 format a floppy as follows:
>
> FORMAT /S A:
>
> Copy the following directories to A:
>
> C:\EUPHORIA\BIN
> C:\EUPHORIA\INCLUDE
>
> Delete:
>
> A:\EUPHORIA\BIN\EXW.EXE
>
> as a Windows version of Euphoria on a DOS boot diskette makes no
> sense
> (well not to me anyhow!)
>
> Make sure that the floppy disk has the following file:
>
> A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
>
> and that it has entries similar to:
>
> SET EUDIR=A:\EUPHORIA
> SET PATH=%PATH%;A:\EUPHORIA\BIN
>
> Now copy any Euphoria source you need to your floopy disk.
>
> Boot from the floppy and at the A:\> prompt you can type:
>
> EX PROGNAME.EX
>
> to run the Euphoria program in file "PROGNAME.EX".
>
> Now just because it's possible to get the DOS version of Euphoria
> onto a
> bootable DOS diskette I don't think this usage is anywhere common
> enough
> for a generic installer to be expected to do it and I sure don't want
> to
<snip>
9. Re: Removable Drives
>Well, I have a 386 pc without any hard drive, so I used to boot from a
>floppy with eu4 on it just to code.
>It's nice but a little bit slow to do that.
Do you run a RAM drive? If you've a meg or so of memory to spare for a RAM
drive then maybe you could copy the Euphoria run time into the RAM drive.
Maybe copy your editor up there too? Could give you a nice performance
kick
Regards,
FP.
