Re: Re: Re: Re: cant run dia on windows

["Ben A. Hetland" <ben a hetland sintef no>]

Sartaj,

I don't know if this works, just trying to use my imagination with something
that seems to be quickly solved for most people in one or the other way that
so many already has suggested.

You could try using / instead of \ in the path you specify (e.g. "C:/home"),
as I have sometimes seen problems arising from the \ being interpreted as an
escape character. All Windows variants that I know of, and even old MS-DOS,
support the forward slash ('/') internally as an alternate directory
delimiter.

If this doesn't work, could you please try to tell us something more about
your platform: Which kind of Windows is it, and in which language locale and
character set, for instance? (codepage, far-east support, whatever...) This
might help give us a clue to what might be the problem in your case.

Also, I know that for instance on NT/W2K, the autoexec.bat is not used at
all, and there you have a different place to specify environment variables
like this. (Somewhere in the Control Panel of course.)

Does Dia really not start at all, or is it "just" this warning message
popping up before it proceeds as normal?

Best regards,

-+-Ben-+-



----- Original Message -----
From: sartajsingh <sartajsingh@rediffmail.com>
To: <dia-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Thursday, 07 February, 2002 21:13
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: cant run dia on windows



I have done it in autoexec.bat.will someoone
please give me a correct answer which wil lwork.
sartaj

On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 Alan Horkan wrote :
>
> if you open a command window and type
> set HOME=c:\home
> it will only work temporarily
>
> you probably need to add the line
> set HOME=c:\home
> to autoexec.bat
> for it to be permanent
>
> In theory i think
> c:\windows\Profiles\username\Application Data\
> or
> c:\windows\Application Data\
> are where Microsoft expects applications to put this
> kind of information
> (but if you try that the spaces in the filenames might
> cause problems)
> i think maybe there are some registry variables dia
> could lookup instead
> of using the HOME variable from the shell.
> I have been meaning to look it up and submit a patch
> ... but then there
> are lots of things i have been meaning to do but never
> get around to
>
> Sincerely
> Alan
>
> On 6 Feb 2002, sartajsingh wrote:
> >
> > but I really dont have a "home" directory .
> its says set to valid directory or existing directory.
> can I set it to ANY existing any without worring
> about the path.
> I use windows.
> can I do set HOME=c:\ or somethign like that.
> sartaj
>
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 Cyrille Chepelov wrote :
> > Le Wed, Feb 06, 2002, à 01:42:21PM -0000, sartajsingh
> a
> > écrit:
> > >
> > > I dont have a home directory
> > > I did set HOME=c:\home in autoexec.bat and when
> > > I run dia it says home doesnt exist and soem other
> > > line number errors.
> >
> >
> > if you set HOME=c:\home, c:\home MUST exist. If you
> set
> > HOME to something
> > else, that "something else" MUST be a valid path to an
> > existing directory.
> > The HOME variable SHOULD exist, and if it does, it
> MUST
> > point to *a* valid
> > directory. Any directory.
> >
> > -- Cyrille
> >
> > --
> > Grumpf.
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