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vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

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I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There does not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight? What should the missing line be? Just to be sure.

78 00 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8\bin\win\vwnt.exe
77 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.7.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe

Thanks,
Aik-Siong Koh

Niall Ross

Re: vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

askoh wrote:

>I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There does
>not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight?
>
Yes; it was a simple oversight. (Storms in Scotland meant I lost power
for days during the crucial final week of roll-out, not a problem as
everything I had to do for it had already been done - except, as it
turned out, that .ini file addition.)

>What should the missing line be?
>
78 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe

or, of course, pointing at wherever else your have installed the
vw7.8.1's bin\win\vwnt.exe.

Of coiurse, if you have several versions of VW installed, you will add
that line to the VisualWorks.ini file that your Windows machine is
actually using - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.

Once you've added the line, double-clicking a 7.8.1 image on Windows
will open it with that vwnt.exe. And of course mapping 78 00 to it will
get the improved VM for your 78 00 images - but we recommend upgrading
all your work to 7.8.1 so you get the 7.8.1 code fixes as well.

HTH
Yours faithfully
Niall Ross

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Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs (SNN)

Re: vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

The fact that version IDs aren't incremented at the beginning of a cycle still puzzles me, why would I want to change my 78 00 line to test pre-RC 7.8.1 builds and how do I tell them apart from pre-RC 7.9 builds? If they were, you wouldn’t have this issue.

-Boris

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Niall Ross
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 4:33 PM
To: askoh
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [vwnc] vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

askoh wrote:

>I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There

>does not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight?

Yes; it was a simple oversight. (Storms in Scotland meant I lost power for days during the crucial final week of roll-out, not a problem as everything I had to do for it had already been done - except, as it turned out, that .ini file addition.)

>What should the missing line be?

78 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe

or, of course, pointing at wherever else your have installed the vw7.8.1's bin\win\vwnt.exe.

Of coiurse, if you have several versions of VW installed, you will add that line to the VisualWorks.ini file that your Windows machine is actually using - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.

Once you've added the line, double-clicking a 7.8.1 image on Windows will open it with that vwnt.exe. And of course mapping 78 00 to it will get the improved VM for your 78 00 images - but we recommend upgrading all your work to 7.8.1 so you get the 7.8.1 code fixes as well.

HTH

Yours faithfully

Niall Ross

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Dave Stevenson-3

Re: vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

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> - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.

That notion wins a Silly Award.

The installer should not put VisualWorks.exe and VisualWorks.ini in the bin/win folder. It is a separate application, and should have its own home:

c:\Program Files\Cincom\VWLoader\

When installing a new version of VWLoader, an entry should be added for the .ini file, rather than overwriting it altogether.

Dave Stevenson
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From: Niall Ross <[hidden email]>
To: askoh <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Fri, March 2, 2012 3:33:11 PM
Subject: Re: [vwnc] vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

askoh wrote:

>I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There does
>not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight?
>
Yes; it was a simple oversight. (Storms in Scotland meant I lost power
for days during the crucial final week of roll-out, not a problem as
everything I had to do for it had already been done - except, as it
turned out, that .ini file addition.)

>What should the missing line be?
>
78 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe

or, of course, pointing at wherever else your have installed the
vw7.8.1's bin\win\vwnt.exe.

Of coiurse, if you have several versions of VW installed, you will add
that line to the VisualWorks.ini file that your Windows machine is
actually using - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.

Once you've added the line, double-clicking a 7.8.1 image on Windows
will open it with that vwnt.exe. And of course mapping 78 00 to it will
get the improved VM for your 78 00 images - but we recommend upgrading
all your work to 7.8.1 so you get the 7.8.1 code fixes as well.

HTH
Yours faithfully
Niall Ross

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