How do I get DESQview/X Mosaic to use the XV viewer?
A409: XV seems to always prepend its current directory to any files that it is given as arguments, ending with a trailing slash. Mosaic always passes a full path to the file to XV. This ends up with XV trying to load a file called /TMP/\TMP\SOMEFILE.GIF To solve this problem, first make a temporary directory typing “MD \TMP” at an MS-DOS prompt. DESQview/X programs ported using the DJGPP compiler and libraries seem to have this path hardcoded in the executable. Next make a batch file, XV.BAT that will launch XV.EXE. Make sure that Mosaic will launch the batch file and not XV.EXE. The easiest way of doing this is to have the XV.BAT file in the same directory as Mosaic, but it will work as long as XV.BAT is in the search path and XV.EXE isn’t, or that XV.BAT is in the path before XV.EXE. The batch file needs to switch to a directory directly of the root of the C drive and then execute XV.EXE with a full path. Something like this: C: C:\TMP C:\DVX\XV\XV.EXE %2 %3 %4 ..%1 The first argueme
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