OpenEuphoria

Re: Removable Drives

• Posted by pampeano at ROCKETMAIL.COM Jun 30, 2001
• 433 views

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
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