CompuServe Messages

Okay, here's more… I just changed those bytes in the executable and it does now get the config file from s:. Much nicer. In the process, I found out that its system for filing all those support files is a little bizarre. You know that window where you specify filing preferences? You say what file has your colours, your key defs, your phone book, and you specify a "system directory". Let's say for the latter you choose foo: (just a wild and crazy name I invented :). Now you click on 'save', and it offers you the default name 'Acc!.def', and the default dir "foo:", because that's what you just specified as your _system directory_. But you don't want to put the _config_ file in foo:, just the other ones, so you change it to s: and save. And guess what? Next time you bring up the define window, your system dir is not foo:, but s:, and that's where it will look for your colour, key and phone files. Now, I said the above design was bizarre – brain-damaged would be a much more apt description. Access! does not appear to want to let you distinguish between the directory where your config file is and the one where your other files are – even though that's part of the what the config file is for! And you have to jump through hoops to get around it. Chew on all that, and play with those windows, and I think you'll get to the bottom of your problem with the colour file. Nick