-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Steiner <rsteiner@visi.com>
To: yarn-list@lists.colorado.edu <yarn-list@lists.colorado.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: Can Yarn coexist on a W98/OS2 machine?
>Here in list.yarn, "John M. Garth" <garth@garlic.com> spake unto us,
saying:
>
>>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
>--------------
>@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
>
>--
> -Rich Steiner >>>---> rsteiner@visi.com >>>---> Bloomington, MN
> OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
> WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
> Let it snow! Let it SNOW!! LET IT >>SMACK<< (Oof!)