On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:06:18 +0900, Shigeru Miyata wrote:
>I updated configure.cmd and lib/configure.cmd for LyX 1.0.x
>I have fixed all the problems reported, and modify a bit
>of algorithm for lib/configure.cmd: The one comes with
>1.0.0 came from 0.11.2x days and copied all the system
>global settings to user's since the UNIX counterpart behaved
>in the same manner then. Now it creates directory and copies
>only layout files, hence is more similar to the newer UNIX
>counterpart. You cannot remove the system global settings
>anymore, even though OS/2 is a single user system.
>If you have an access to an OS/2 system, you can test it
>like this:
> - unpack LyX binary at %X11ROOT%
> - if you have %HOME%/.lyx/ directory, back it up and
> remove it
> - replace %X11ROOT%/XFree86/lib/X11/lyx/configure.cmd
> with the lyx/lib/configure.cmd below
> - invoke LyX
>Please report any remaining bugs you find.
Could not find any. Like this lib/configure.cmd very much.
Now LyX automagically adapts to COMSPEC (whether cmd.exe or sh.exe
syntax must be used).
Just one question because of curiosity: I do not understand why the old
one did not produce this result; I tried to find something in the
script triggering this different behaviour. But I do not understand
enough of it to find out, what makes the difference here.
Cheers,
Arnd
