Re: DOS-based Windows users, please test

[Paul Scott]

Bryan Stanbridge wrote:

> >address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Ok.  Going back to our previous attempt.  I have attached a batch file
> > which corrects the GS_LIB problem and successfully creates a PDF on MS
> > Windows 98SE.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > set lily=c:\progra~1\lilypond\usr
> > set GS_LIB=%lily%\share\gs\lib
> > set GS_FONTPATH=c:\windows\fonts
> > %lily%\bin\gs -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 
> > -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"simple.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f
> > ."simple.ps"
>
>
> Don't forget that not all windows installations will put windows in 
> c:\windows.  Someone may have installed it to WinME, Win98, 98SE or 
> any other type of directory structure.  I can't recall what the 
> variable to use for that directory is, but if we want it to work out 
> of the box, it might be good to use it in this instance.

Completely agree.  I can't get to a MS W* machine at the moment but that 
variable should definitely be used.  The above was just what Jan gave to 
me to test which happened to work on the machine I was on.

> Granted, most users who name their windows install directory something 
> other than the default windows are probably also going to know how to 
> change the script (and that they'd probably need to do so).  It's not 
> a major change, in any case.

They might not know because it might have been automatically changed by 
a Windows upgrade.

Paul