Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Improv Problem! Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 04:51:51 GMT References: <1991Apr16.195120.29627@rick.cs.ubc.ca><1991Apr16.195343.29691@rick.cs.ubc.ca> <1493@toaster.SFSU.EDU><1991Apr23.181401.13855@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 41 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: francisr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 23 Apr 91 18:14:01 GMTLines: 41 In article <1991Apr23.181401.13855@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> francisr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes: Anyway, another way to get around this is to add where Improv lives on your system to the Workspace Appplication Path. You can do this with a 'dwrite command'. The only trick is not leaving out what is already there. a command like dwrite Workspace ApplicationPath /NextApps:/NextDeveloper:/Users/user/Apps:\ /And/so/on/and/so/forth will write all the proper places to look for an application to start up an *.extention Whatever you dwrite WILL write over what is already there, so don't forget anything. I messed up the first time, and had to go around finding all of the places I missed. Unfortunately, a 'dread -l' doesn't show what is already there. Hope this helps. To reset the behaviour, do 'dread Workspace ApplicationPaths | dremove'. Thus removing the stuff from the database, and reinvoking the defaults. The ones that belong in there are: ~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos (This is from a 2.1 system, which fixed the /LocalApps omission, I believe). How does one find that out? What I did was do 'strings /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace' to get a list of the probable strings in the executable, and then searched for ApplicationPaths. Luckly enough, there was the default for it right above. Sometimes one isn't that lucky, but this will work on lots of executables, if you need to find out about that type of thing . . . PS: What I wouldn't do for real docs on this system . . . it looks like there are a lot of neato magic hidden defaults there in Workspace, but who'd ever know? Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Simply press Control-right-Shift while click-dragging the mouse . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."