>>I have two seperate Yarn directories. The DOS version is the one I used
>>first, and that's set up like a "normal" Tarn installation. I also have a
>>YARNOS2 directory containing the Yarn executables for OS/2. I use two
>>separate CONFIG files (since they use different editors and such) and two
>>different batch files to control processing, but otherwise they're usig
>>the same newsbase and folders.
>
>Could you give more details on how to do this? In I have DOS
>Yarn running and would like to try OS/2 Yarn. How do you get the
>OS/2 Yarn to share the news base and folders in the DOS Yarn
>directory?
(1) I have my DOS Yarn setup in I:\YARN, and my home directory is
I:\YARN\RICH for both DOS and OS/2 versions.
(2) I put the OS/2 programs into I:\YARNOS2. Nothing else.
(3) I created a separate Yarn config file called CONFIG.OS2 to handle
the settings for the OS/2 version (since I use a different editor
and message processor in OS/2 than I do in DOS).
(4) I set the various environment variables for the OS/2 programs
accordingly in the batch file I use to run Yarn:
set YARN=I:\YARN
set YARNRC=I:\YARN\RICH\YARN\config.os2
set HOME=I:\YARN\RICH
(5) When I run OS/2 Yarn utilities (import, yarn, expire), I do so from
the I:\YARN subdirectory, and I explicitly call the programs with a
complete pathname (e.g., I:\YARNOS2\IMPORT.EXE, etc.).
That's it, I think. There really wasn't that much to it. Make a backup
of your original Yarn directories first before you start playing with
the OS/2 stuff, but it should work fine.
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