>Since the primary user of this system is starting to do more of her
>work in Win98, I'm wondering if it is possible to set up vsoup and yarn
>in Win98 so that the news can be imported and read from either OS.
Yes, this can be done. I have a similar setup here between DOS and
OS/2. I keep the DOS Yarn executables in D:\NETSTUFF\YARN, and the
OS/2 executables in D:\NETSTUFF\YARNOS2, and I set the various
environment variables to point to the same HOME directory.
I also have two config files (since each incarnation uses slightly
different editors and spellcheckers, etc.).
Example (with most of the batch file logic stripped out) just to
illustrate the environment variable settings and program choices:
DOS Batch file
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@echo off
set YARN=D:\NETSTUFF\YARN
set YARNRC=D:\NETSTUFF\YARN\RICH\YARN\config.dos
set HOME=D:\NETSTUFF\YARN\RICH
d:\netstuff\yarn\import.exe -u
d:\netstuff\yarn\yarnx
d:\netstuff\yarn\expire -o
d:\netstuff\yarn\nnign
OS/2 batch file
---------------
@echo off
set YARN=D:\NETSTUFF\YARN
set YARNRC=D:\NETSTUFF\YARN\RICH\YARN\config.os2
set HOME=D:\NETSTUFF\YARN\RICH
D:\NETSTUFF\YARNOS2\import.exe -u
D:\NETSTUFF\YARNOS2\yarn
D:\NETSTUFF\YARNOS2\expire -o
D:\NETSTUFF\YARNOS2\nnign
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