OpenEuphoria

Re: Removable Drives

• Posted by freeplay at mailandnews.com Jun 30, 2001
• 439 views

>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.