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In article <ardie.416.2E65BFC4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ardie@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ardie Mack) writes:
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>From: ardie@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ardie Mack)
>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,uiuc.sw.mosaic,bit.listserv.win3-l
>Subject: Re: WinMosaic:  problem with paths for viewers
>Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 11:49:24 GMT
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>Summary: WinMosaic seems to transmit wrong path of viewed files to viewers
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>In article <arnsteinCvF05v.A03@netcom.com> arnstein@netcom.com (David Arnstein)
>writes:
>>From: arnstein@netcom.com (David Arnstein)
>>Subject: WinMosaic:  problem with paths for viewers
>>Summary: WinMosaic seems to transmit wrong path of viewed files to viewers
>>Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:44:19 GMT

>>When starting ANY viewer from mosaic for Microsoft Windows (alpha 6) I
>>have a problem:

>>Mosaic places the temporary file in e:\sharewar\mosaic but launches
>>the viewer with path d:

>>If it matters, I installed mosaic in e:\sharewar\mosaic and my windows
>>directory is d:\windows.

>>For example, when I try to view a file map.gif, mosaic creates a file
>>e:\sharewar\mosaic\#map.gif.  It then starts my gif viewer with file
>>spec d:#map.gif.  Naturally, the viewer doesn't display anything.

>>A typical path in my mosaic.ini file would be
>>     gif="g:\pstyler2\pstyler %lf"
>>or something.  Actually, I just used the format provided in the mosaic
>>distribution.  I didn't try anything fancy.

>>Any suggestions?
>>-- 
>>David Arnstein       
>>arnstein@netcom.com  

>1.  Ignore NCSA's lines about setting an environment variable.  It still works 
>best if you put mosaic.ini in the \windows subdir.

>2.  Search all drives/volumes for other versions of mosaic.ini, and destroy 
>them.  (Make sure the one in \windows has the paths correctly defined as you 
>have above.)

Better  yet, leave mosaic.ini in the c:\...\mosaic subdirectory and add the 
following line to autoexec.bat:

  set mosaic.ini=c:\...\mosaic\mosaic.ini

You need the full drive\path\filename for the environment variable. I do this 
and all viewers work just fine.

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