Re: cdwincontext

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

wwl@musensturm.de wrote:
>>If the batch file is still functionally equivalent, it would
>>make sense to include it in the distribution. I vaguely recall
>>that I had removed all of the 'smart' stuff from the batch
>>file to please command.com, making it much less functional,
>>but perhaps that is more an indication of how well I know
>>command.com ;-)
> 
> 
> As I remember, most, if not all of the smart stuff mentioned has to 
> do with automatic recognition of the install-directory.
> All this smartness is nice, if things work. In the other cases 
> smartness is a jungle and it would be easier to check a dumb but 
> simple list of set commands. These batch-files for example are not
> smart enough to recognize if they are running under the right command-
> prozessor and a normal windows 98 user might be very helpless what 
> had gone wrong.

weren't you the one that said scripting languages were
like shooting a cannon? ;-)

> But the settings in scite had to be altered too. 

Yes (using %COMMSPEC% like you said should work).

Taco