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You are probably reading this because you can't get the Emerald Shareware
Games disc to run on your machine. It doesn't surprise me. I constantly find
little quirks and jiggles that DOS throws at me without a warning. Different
DOS version are only sort-of compatible with each other. Your's just happens
to have a quirk that keeps this disc from running.
HAVE NO FEAR! The things that the installation batch files do is really quite
simple and you can do it by hand with a little instruction. I am providing
this technical explanation for those users that find themselves backed in
a corner.
Firstly, there are four environment variables that CdIdx and the batch
files use to navigate through and around your system.
They are:
CDR This is the CD-ROM drive letter. To set it, simply type this DOS
command:
set CDR=D
Where "D" is your CD-ROM drive letter. (Notice how this corresponds
to the "D" in "CD1\CDIDXTMP" in the example for CDIDX.
CDT Another easy one! This is simply the temporary directory. Command is:
set CDT=\CDIDXTMP
BD This variable is the letter of your boot disk. On 999 out
of 1000 MS-DOS computers with a hard drive, this letter will be C.
Command to set is:
set BD=C
CDIDX This one simply is a combination of the other variables.
The first character is the CD-ROM drive letter. The second is your
temporary drive (usually C). The next character is a "1" and the
rest is the full path (without the disk letter) of the temporary
directory CdIdx will use. So, on a system that boots from drive C:,
has a CD-ROM drive with a letter of D and wants to call the temporary
directory "\cdidxtmp", you could simply type the DOS command:
set CDIDX=DC1\CDIDXTMP
You can subsitute your own values for the above example. Remember, if
you don't put these commands in the autoexec.bat, they will be lost
when you reboot.
REMEMBER!!!! If you want these commands to be there each time you boot, you
have to put the lines (modified to fit your system) into your autoexec.bat
file.
Once you get these keyed in, you should be able to run the go command off
the top directory of the CD-ROM. If not, simply make the CD-ROM drive
your default drive, type "cd \cdidx" and then type "cdidx".
Oh, one last thing. If you are running all this in a DOS window under
OS/2, for some reason the "EMERALD SOFTWARE" logo screen won't paint
if you don't hold down a key. Good key to hold down is Alt. That's
a strange one!
I am betting you will never have to do this, but, if you get in such a jam
and have no idea what to do with all this, give me a call at 812-442-5354
and key in extension 23, leave a message. I will call you back and we'll
get you running. If you call, know the following things: Your DOS version
number, your machine type (486/386/286), the manufacturer and version of
your BIOS, the amount of RAM installed in your machine and the amount
of free RAM when you type the "mem" command in DOS.
George Bowles, Bowles Computer Consulting