Daniel, Stefan: Does drag and drop work?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 2, 2003

Dear SW List, and Daniel, Stefan, Jerry...
Many thanks for this information, Daniel....I am really glad to know
that the drag and drop solution is solving your problems, at least
temporarily....And your other solutions are great too...

I want to create ONE PDF file that includes all of these instructions
so we don't forget it all...I hope you will contact the developers too,
to find out if they know of other solutions as well...Val ;-)

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Daniel Noelpp in Switzerland wrote:
> Yes, it works!! It is important that all the files I want to edit
> or view with SignWriter DOS are in the same directory together
> with the program. Because once in DosBOX I can't change any
> directories... or only with some difficulty. It is definitively
> impossible when SignWriter is running (change directory
> doesn't work at all).
>
> I found a way to put DosBOX into my start menu and start
> SignWriter DOS as easily as any program without dragging
> and dropping. The trick is that you can give commands to
> DOSBox using the -c option.
>
> I have installed SignWriter on my Spanish machine at
> C:\programas\swch and DosBOX at C:\programas\dosbox.
>
> I put a menu named "SignWriter DOS" into my start menu
> and under its properties I put as destination the following
> incantation:
>
> C:\programas\dosbox\dosbox.exe -c "@mount c c:\"
> -c "@cd c:\progra~1\swch" -c "sw" -c "exit"
>
> That means: start DOS Box and execute the following commands:
>
> @mount c c:\
> @cd c:\progra~1\swch
> sw
> exit
>
> That's my solution and it works very charmingly.
>
> Now, I am looking for a keyboard driver and I might try to
> contact the programmers of DOS Box and ask them about
> this problem. It is a bug in DOS Box I think.
>
> Cheers!
> Daniel Noelpp
>
> P.S. Yes, tomorrow I meet Siv and A-Claude in Passugg in
> the mountains for the workshop.
>