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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:25:32 PDT
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Boot drive ?

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On Mon, 30 July 2001, "Rollin White" wrote:

> Sender: scoug-programming-owner
> To: "scoug-programming@scoug.com"
> Subject: SCOUG-Programming:
> Boot drive ?
> From: "Rollin White"
> Reply-To: scoug-programming@scoug.com
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:20:15 PDT
>
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:48:32 PDT, Robert Blair wrote:
>
> >I got out my copy of the REXX Reference Summary Handbook by Dick Goran.
> >In that book it is listed as an Object REXX function. So it may not be
> >available on all systems.
> >
>
> The other technique that should work fine is to use the VALUE command along with one of these
> environment variables:
>
> USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
> SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
> OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
> RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
> COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
>
> So, something like:
>
> BootDrive = SUBSTR(STRIP(VALUE('USER_INI',,'OS2ENVIRONMENT'),'b'),1,2)
>
> The last three could conceivably be replaced by alternates which might not be on the boot drive so I
> think the INI is the safest.
>
>

If this is so, is the 'C:' on the '_INI's just redundent,
optional,
or the way normal people do things?

I recall setting up my boot from floppy/switch from that to
parallel port Zip drive experiment, that I had trouble
trying to get WPS to work.
I also seem to recall discussing this with someone else,
who seemed to believe that it would be possible to get
the .ini's on the parallel port drive to work, that I had
not recompiled them properly or some such.

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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