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Article #3246Re: A bug in EPM/Workframe and a workaround.
From: BAKER,Gavin
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 04:34
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 04:34
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In <1i7pdeINNi7c@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca writes: > Hi All, > > A while ago I got the WorkSet/2 package (gotta love those promotional deals :-) > and just today got around to playing with it. I went through the tutorial > fine, except when I got to the part about moving the cursor over printf and > typing ctl-h (in EPM) to get help for it. > > Well, I was puzzled, since the install program had put the environment > variable > > SET HELPNDX=DDE4.NDX+EPMKWHLP.NDX > > (or something like that) into my config.sys for me when I had installed it some- > time ago. > > I played around a bit and finally got the online help to work by putting the > full path names of the two files in question into that environment variable > and restarting. For the record, I had installed to drive d, but left all other > options alone. > > I don't know if this was a known bug before I found it, but if it wasn't, it is > now. If it was, is there a fix (in the form of a CSD) I can apply to correct > this? > -- > Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca > > "It's raining cats? You open the skylight, I'll get the relish." > -- Alf Well, this is not a bug at all. It's just the setup - if you check the readme that came with the toolkit, it says to add C:\TOOLKT20\BOOK to your DPATH so it can find the files. If you do this, you shouldn't need absolute paths in the env. variable. Rgds, Gavin /\/\
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!news Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: A bug in EPM/Workframe and a workaround. Message-ID: <1993Jan4.043456.8522@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> From: DEMOGRB@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BAKER,Gavin) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:34:56 GMT Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System) References: <1i7pdeINNi7c@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Organization: La Trobe University In-Reply-To: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca's message of 3 Jan 1993 22:30:06 GMT X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24 Lines: 42