Re: Running LilyPond from a memory stick

[Ben Lewis]

Start > Run > RegEdit? I know it exists in XP, so that should work.

On Friday 11 April 2008 16:25:14 Valentin Villenave wrote:
> 2008/4/11 Palmer, Ralph <address@hidden>:
> 
> >  Has anyone been able to run LilyPond from/on a memory stick? I have a 16
> >  Gb stick, and I'd like to run LilyPond from it, but I don't know what
> >  problems I'm likely to encounter. The computers I plan to use both run
> >  Windows XP SP2.
> >
> >  The stick is set up to run programs, but it looks for U3 package files
> >  (*.u3p). Has anyone built .u3p files for LilyPond? Alternatively, anyone
> >  know what files and/or directories would have to be mounted on the
> >  memory stick?
> 
> That was one of the features I was planning to implement with the
> EasyLilyPond installer.
> If I were you, I'd forget about .u3p packages. You can simply copy
> LilyPond binary files (as found in Program Files\LilyPond) on your
> key; then the only problem is that LilyPond needs some environment
> variables to work.
> 
> There's a program that hooks into the Windows registry and modifies it
> on the fly, but I can't remember how it's called (I vaguely remember
> some icon that looked like coffee (?) but...). My best guess is that
> we'd only need to make such a trick.
> 
> Cheers,
> Valentin
> 
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