Re: question re path to help files

[Arnold W. <awi...@te...>]

Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:

> Arnold Wiegert wrote:
> 
>> Hello Salvador
>>
>> In case you're bored ;-)
>>
>> In working with the MS Visual C compiler, I keep running into the 
>> problem of the editor not finding it's help files and I was wondering 
>> if it would be possible to derive the necessary path information from 
>> the SET_FILES environment variable as it also looks for the rest of 
>> its info in the same place?
> 
> 
> Well, the path indicated in SET_FILES isn't the same where info files 
> should be installed. But it can be used like this:
> 
> SET_FILES=xxxxxxx/share/setedit
> Then:
> INFOPATH=xxxxxxx/info
> 
Somehow I had missed INFOPATH. When I define it, the help files are 
found  even if I run the editor from the debugger IDE.

Thank you

> I'm adding code to do it. For DOS/Win32 that's used when INFOPATH and 
> DJDIR aren't defined. For other OSs that's added at the end of the 
> guessed INFOPATH.
> 
> SET
> 
> P.S. I'm generating new snapshots.
> 

OK, I'll try them out, hopefully some time later this week.

Arnold