Currently Seeking Auto Execs
Howdy y'all!
I'm proud to announce that the installer is now capable of installing the
Euphoria and optional libraries to the user's computer, and can successful=
ly
handle occasions where a previous copy of Euphoria exists at that location=
.
I've now arrived at the part of the show where, with the user's permission=
, the
user's autoexec file is altered to add the EUDIR environment variable, as =
well
as adding euphoria to PATH.
Now then, here's my next problem: locating the autoexec file. Perhaps wi=
th a
bit of na=EFvet=E9, I'm assuming that the autoexec file will be in the roo=
t
directory of the user's boot drive. So, wonderful ... which one is the bo=
ot
drive?
The reason I ask such a silly question is that I've never had a computer w=
ith
more than one hard drive. That being the case, the user *could* install
Euphoria on a secondary drive ... the one that *doesn't* have the autoexec=
.bat
file.
The only way I could figure to do this programmatically and without "askin=
g"
the user is to search the root directory of every drive on the user's syst=
em
for "autoexec.bat." But ... is it possible for the user to have _two_ aut=
oexec
files ...
On my computer, at start up, I can load either Windows or Linux. I'm worr=
ied
about a situation in which another user could load Windows NT or Windows 9=
8, or
some such confusing setup. In that case, it is conceivable that there wou=
ld be
two autoexec.bat files, if NT booted using drive C: and 98 booted using dr=
ive
D: for instance.
In short, folks, I do believe that I'm confusing the hell out of myself. =
Could
someone please help before my head explodes. Thank you.
Travis Beaty
Claude, Texas.
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