will installing vX affect my copy of 1.82?

I want to install vX to look at it, but I do not want to hurt what I already have.

Thanks,

- Richard Hankins

No Problem,

VX Prerelease simply works using Xbase++ V1.82 - no changes to the V1.82
files.

You can either use VX or just use your project scripts with pbuild - either
will work.

-Joe

"Richard Hankins" <rhankins@contactasi.com> wrote in message
news:rQLenHn9DHA.3800@S15147418...
> will installing vX affect my copy of 1.82?
>
> I want to install vX to look at it, but I do not want to hurt what I
already have.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Richard Hankins
>
>

Richard Hankins:

> will installing vX affect my copy of 1.82?

Yes:

README - SNIP ---

 IMPORTANT NOTE: VISUAL XBASE++ 2.0 PRERELEASE SETUP WILL
 MODIFY FILES IN YOUR XBASE++ INSTALLATION!! IT IS STRONGLY
 RECOMMENDED TO FIRST CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR EXISTING XBASE++
 INSTALLATION BEFORE INSTALLING VISUAL XBASE++ 2.0 PRERELEASE!

README - SNIP ---

I did a separate install of 1.82 and installed VX into this new
installation apart from my production environment.

This was quite easy since I use the same setup as proposed by Frank++
sometimes ago:

- Install each new Xbase++ version into its own directory below \alaska\:

  \alaska\xpp284
  \alaska\xpp294
  \alaska\xpp335 (VX-Version)

  Below each of the dirs above are the common directories like BIN, BOOK,
  LIB etc...

- Create a batch similar to this for each version of Xbase++:

rem ******************************
rem Set-Batch for Xbase++ 1.80.284
rem first param can be used to
rem set the desired drive letter
rem ******************************

@ECHO OFF
CLS

IF "%1" == "" GOTO DEFAULT

IF EXIST %1:\ SUBST %1: /D
SUBST %1: D:\ALASKA\XPP284
GOTO :END

:DEFAULT
IF EXIST O:\ SUBST O: /D
SUBST O: D:\ALASKA\XPP284

:END

You could even substitute XPP284 with %2 and pass the version string as a
second parameter.

- Use the environment setting of autoexec.bat (Win9x) or the built-in OS
setting (W2k, XP):

SET INCLUDE=o:\INCLUDE;
SET LIB=o:\LIB;
SET PATH=o:\BIN;o:\LIB;

Now you can switch your whole environment by simply running the related
batch file.

HTH
Thomas Braun