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#ACADCFG variable

    15-Jan-92 09:33:57
Sb: #ACADCFG variable
Fm: Dave Devereaux-Weber 74025,471
To: Duff Kurland [Adesk] 72407,2764
Duff, I've had this wishlist item for some time. Now that our company is going to server-based AutoCAD, I want it even more. At present, ACADCFG is a DOS environment variable which contains the drive and/or path to the ACAD.CFG file. If we want to use multiple configurations, we can create multiple directories and run ACAD's configure routine, which creates multiple copies of ACAD.CFG in our subdirectories. In addition to being able to specify the drive and path, I would like the ability to specify the file name and extension. This would let me put multiple configurations in the same directory. This could work with a change in the configure routine, which would add the additional question of asking for the configuration file name. Alternatively, ACAD could continue to use ACAD.CFG and the user/installer/integrator could rename the file outside of AutoCAD. By the way, this would be less important if AutoCAD allowed multiple output devices or changes in output devices from within the drawing editor. Dave Devereaux-Weber – American Communications Consultants