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Re: A bug in EPM/Workframe and a workaround.

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From: BAKER,Gavin
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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Subject: Re: A bug in EPM/Workframe and a workaround.
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From: DEMOGRB@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BAKER,Gavin)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:34:56 GMT
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