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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: Re: v11i181: elvis14, vi clone v1.4 (part 01/05)
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.192724.6425@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 00:27:14 GMT
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| I haven't figured out where to put the "elvis.rc" and what envrionment
| variables to set for (I have no problem if I put it in the working
| dirctory. But this is not the question). Your help is greatly
| appreciated.
| 
| Jinhua Chen.

I have found that the simplest approach is to make a subdirectory (I call
mine "c:\etc") which contains various configuration files such as elvis.rc,
and use the APPEND command to ensure that files in that directory can always
be found.  Things like Borland .BGI files also go into \etc.  There are
public-domain alternatives, such as DPATH30 and SEARCH13 (might be at other
version numbers by now) which have worked for me with versions of MSDOS that
didn't have "APPEND".

You can set the environment variable EXINITRC to contain some options,
such as wrapmargin, but I think elvis.rc is a more flexible method.