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Subject: Re: Re: Hard Disk Set-Ups
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Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 12:17:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 12:17:58 1987
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> I believe that such environment variables generally want a directory path that
> is terminated with a slash; e.g. I use
> 	set PROCOMM=C:\TERMINAL\PROCOMM\
> Also, I'm using PC-Write v2.55, and it does utilize an environment variable
> (viz., set PCWRITE=C:\WORDPROC\).  In my experience the case was important --
> all uppercase works, anyway.  And finally, some programs that want overlays and
> don't know where to look, such as Wordstar, can be fooled by using a program
> that takes the place of the PATH, such as Search or DPath.  I used Search with
> version 3.7 microEmacs to find the emacs.rc file (but v3.8 knows to check the
> PATH variable, now).
> 	p.s.  ARC uses the variable ARCTEMP to locate its working files (real
> good if you're archiving onto a floppy).  Does anyone know offhand whether
> PKARC uses an environment variable?  It just occurred to me that I never changed
> that when I started using Katz's product.

Thanks for the correction, and the pc-write tip. Speaking of pkxarc,
I just installed it on 3.1, and I get "insufficient memory" trying
to run either pkarc or pkxarc, unless I boot without my
	SHELL c:command.com /P /E:32  statement

	anybody know why??

Frank Cooley
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