Subj : Fido on a removable drive
To   : All
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Wed Aug 23 2006 08:40 pm

Hello everybody.

Well, I am back online after the telco took 16 days to replace fix the cable a 
few hundred meters from my wall socket to almost at the exchange, which leads 
me to ask,

about fidonet on a USB memory stick, and the problem of changing drive 
letters.

That is if I plug a USB memory stick into my computer it becomes drive F:, but 
plugging the same memory stick into the computer at work, it becomes drive H:.

Any suggestions on how to make Squish, msged, binkleyterm, binkd, etc operate 
in such a fashion that it matters not what the drive name is, the paths are 
sane and make sense to the programs.

I operate mostly on Linux, and Fido is stricly Linux here, but the computer at 
work is WINXP, and has an internet connection.

Things I have considered are;

Setting the drive in a batch file i.e.

Set drive "equals" F
and then writing paths as follows

$drive\squish\msgbase

or ..\squish\msgbase

otherwise writing seperate config files for each program, i.e.

squish.cfg.f
squish.cfg.h

and then run a batch file that will copy one or the other to squish.cfg 
depending on what drive letter is allocated to the USB drive?

Am I making sense?

Excuse the "equals" above, but my keyboard seems to have lost a few random 
key's :-((

Russell

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