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From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld)
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Subject: Re: IBM/PC jove.rc file
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Date: 12 Feb 90 23:00:39 GMT
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In article <7997@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>In article <7261@ogicse.ogc.edu>,
>scottb@ogicse.ogc.edu (Scott Baker) writes:
>>I'm using JOVE version 4.13 on my PC clone.  The jove.rc file is not read
>>unless it is in the current working directory.  Is there a system variable
>>that I can set to remedy this?
>>
>>                        Thanks in Advance:
>>
>>                        Scott Baker
>
>The APPEND command (gives PATH like capabilities to data files) may
>work. I used a similar program found on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil,
>which worked fine (unless you start in a directory which contains a
>different JOVE.RC, in which case this will be found before the data
>path gets searched).
>
>Richard Stanton

Unfortunately, when I did this with an earlier version of jove, the APPEND
did weird things.  If I tried to edit the jove.rc on my hard disk, it would
change the jove.rc on my RAM disk because of the APPEND.  This happened even
when I used an explicit pathname.  APPEND causes similar problems with many
programs.  There is an environment variable: JOVERC which should be set to
the full pathname (i.e. with the filename) of the jove.rc file.

Neil

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