Standard install loction?

[fpefpe]

Greetings --

I am in the process of setting up a new
computer with 4nt/take --

For the most part, I always did a manual
install on my retiring win/2k system,
that just unzip the install payload (the
last version I installed was 7.02)

Now I am installing v10 on a vista 64
system, so the standard install path
would be something like

C:\Program Files (x86)

For the most part the spaces/blanks are
always problematic if the path is not
quoted -- I did notice a clever fix, ie

set comspec=%@sfn[%@quote[%comspec]]

but other that going that far, has
anyone just installed "take" in a simple
path off the drive root, ie
c:\TakeCommand

Thanks

Frank

 

[Charles Dye]

... but other that going that far, has
anyone just installed "take" in a simple
path off the drive root, ie
c:\TakeCommand

I generally keep the current release in C:\Bin\TCmd. Works for me.

You can also set a directory alias in TCStart, e.g.

alias shell:=`%@path[%_cmdspec]`

... which may save you some typing.

 

[Steve Fabian]

Charles Dye wrote:
| ---Quote (Originally by fpefpe)---
| ... but other that going that far, has
| anyone just installed "take" in a simple
| path off the drive root, ie
| c:\TakeCommand
| ---End Quote---
| I generally keep the current release in C:\Bin\TCmd. Works for me.

I, too, use short path names. I normally keep several versions installed, in
a tree like this:

drive:\jpsoft\Inn, where nn is the version number. since I use NTFS, I often
have junctions pointing to the directories, too.

During installation I switch to the target directory, and execute "echo
%_cwd > clip:", before starting the installer, which allows me to just paste
the installation directory's name into it when needed.
--
HTH, Steve

 

[fpefpe]

Charles Dye wrote:
| ---Quote (Originally by fpefpe)---
| ... but other that going that far, has
| anyone just installed "take" in a simple
| path off the drive root, ie
| c:\TakeCommand
| ---End Quote---
| I generally keep the current release in C:\Bin\TCmd. Works for me.

I, too, use short path names. I normally keep several versions installed, in
a tree like this:

drive:\jpsoft\Inn, where nn is the version number. since I use NTFS, I often
have junctions pointing to the directories, too.

During installation I switch to the target directory, and execute "echo
%_cwd > clip:", before starting the installer, which allows me to just paste
the installation directory's name into it when needed.
--
HTH, Steve

Greetings --

The use of junctions is amusing -- so if you had a path like c:\jpsoft\v10
would not the installer save this path for running *.btm files?

Frank

 

[Steve Fabian]

fpefpe wrote:
| The use of junctions is amusing -- so if you had a path like
| c:\jpsoft\v10 would not the installer save this path for running
| *.btm files?

You cannot install using the junction, the MS (mis)installer creates a real
directory with the path you give it. However, you can create as many
junctions (or symbolic links) to that directory as you wish.

The installer creates neither the explorer right-click entries, nor the file
associations. Instead, it creates separate batch files in the installation
directory (tccbatch.btm, tcchere.btm, tcctabhere.btm, tcmdhere.btm) that you
can use once you start TCC.EXE to perform the actions.

On my system I use none of them, since I use GUI programs for graphics or
games only. They would not ever be utilized.
--
Steve