From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rhide as ide
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991003122228 DOT 16555O-100000 AT is...
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > Another way for Sindows 95/98 is to create a shortcut to
> > \djgpp\bin\rhide.exe and put it somewhere on the ::[+] Start menu.
>
> Such a shortcut should be set up to make the starting directory be
> something other than DJGPP's bin subdirectory (which is what it will
> be by default, I think).
>
> RHIDE is designed to save files in the directory where it is started,
> so the easiest way of invoking it is to change to the required
> directory from the command line in a DOS box, and then run RHIDE from
> the command line.

I noticed some interesting (and helpful) behaviour with regard to Windows
Explorer and the Start->Run facility. If you have a Windows Explorer box open,
and go to Start->Run and run a shell (ie command.com or bash), that shell will
start with the directory you were in in the Explorer box as the current
directory.

The reason this is relevant is that if you make a shortcut to RHIDE and give it
NO working directory. Then you give it a keyboard shortcut (CTRL-ALT-R, for
example), when you run the keyboard shortcut while in an Explorer window, RHIDE
will have that directory as the current one as well.

This is the only thing I can say "thank you Microsoft" about.

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Johan Venter
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