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Thank you, Steven, for your help on this and for the two (2) files. I'll get back to the WPS
programming in a couple of days, after I do a couple of other things on my system.
Thank you.
HCM
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:43:36 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:
>In <20051027051821-62211-8@scoug.com>, on 10/27/05
> at 05:18 AM, "Harry Motin" said:
>
>>So I already reference both the JAVA and the OS/2 toolkit libraries. I'm
>>told (or, I believe that I understand) that, if I use more than one
>>compiler on my system, I should use a batch file, and not the
>>CONFIG.SYS, to set these variables. Is that right?
>
>This is correct. In most cases, a setup script makes life simpler because
>it avoids conflicts. There's also a minor performance boost because you
>can optimize the environment for the specific toolchain.
>
>As the attached sample scripts show, the configuration process can be
>simple or relatively complex, depending on the task at hand. The setup
>for OpenWatcom is easy. The setup for building Mozilla is a bit more
>complex.
>
>Keep in mind that when IBM installs an app and updates config.sys, it is
>doing a simple, generic install with relatively minimal consideration for
>how the results might conflict with apps that it does not control. This
>approach makes sense because it difficult to test what one does not know
>exists. It is up to us to use our common sense and decide if the IBM
>method makes sense in our specific environment.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steven
>
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>"Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.67 #10183
Warp4.something/14.100c_W4
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