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Re: [ECS] ECSW and NT problem Ingo Pakleppa Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:38:15 -0400

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It's similar under NT, but NT doesn't have an Autoexec.bat. Go to the Control
Panel, System, Environment. You should see COMSPEC in the System Variables list
(the top one). I'd recommend not changing it from the default, though, because
even if it does make ECS work (which I haven't tried), it could screw up any
number of other programs.

You could also create a batch file ECSSTART.CMD that explicitly sets the
COMSPEC variable (and whatever other variables you may need) and then starts
ECSW.

Ingo

Mark Gilmore wrote:

> This command defines the command interpreter
> (I would assume it also does under NT):
>         SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
>
> Dan Hoehnen wrote:
> >
> > Somehwere around version 3.4.11 ECSW stopped working with NT 4.0 service
> > pack 3.  When I start ECSW it opens 3 windows.  One window is the main
> > ecsw window with Wnd, Scr and Font info in the window title.  Another
> > window has 'Console [ECS] - Do NOT Close' in the window caption.  The
> > third window has 'Ecswrun.bat' in the window caption.  ECSW just stops at
> > this point with all 3 windows open, but never starts.  Prior to version
> > 3.4.11 I would have to close one of the windows (I can't remember which
> > one) to get ecsw to continue loading and then it worked.  But now not
> > even closing one of the windows will make it work.
> >
> > Is anyone else using ecsw with NT 4.0?  Is there a special trick needed?
> > Is it even supposed to work with NT?
> >
> > Dan Hoehnen
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