Separating virtual machine and image files on Windows NT
John-Reed Maffeo
rlpa80 at email.sps.mot.com
Thu Apr 29 19:34:21 UTC 1999
I seem to remember that the names for the different files are hard
coded in the image somewhere. I remember an 'Aha!' that occured when
I saw it. The mental note was filed away, but I don't have clue as to
where the code resides.
Hope this helps.
John-Reed Maffeo
Mesa, AZ
John.Maloney at disney.com wrote:
>
> At 11:51 PM -0500 4/28/99, shaping at bigfoot.com wrote:
> >I have my virtual machine and DLLs in one directory and my .image, .changes,
> >and .sources files in another. I formed a shortcut to run squeak.exe with
> >a full path to the .image file. I double clicked the shortcut. This caused
> >Squeak to appear with a warning about not being able to find the .changes
> >file.
> >
> >Why would Squeak not look in the same directory where it was told to find
> >(and actually found) an .image file? I don't want to duplicate my virtual
> >machines unnecessarily by throwing each of several different images into
> >separate directories with their own copy of a particular virtual machine.
> >Does anyone know what to do here?
>
> I suspect that the error you got referred to the .sources file,
> which should be placed in the same directory as the virtual machine
> and DLL's (since it can be shared by all your images).
>
> Another trick that might work for you (it works on the Mac) is
> to make a shortcut to the Squeak .exe file and leave it on your
> desktop. You can then drop any image file onto it to start that
> image. (I don't use Squeak on Window every day, but I think this
> trick works there.)
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -- John
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