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> To look at your EPSE21.ZIP file I installed a new copy of BlackBox
> into a directory called E:\EpseBlackBox. My usual directory is
> C:\BlackBox.
>
> Unfortunately this has changed all my registry entries (file associations,
..
> I am not a 'happy bunny'.
Dear Robert,
I most sincerely apologize for your misfortune.
The following information appeared on the Blackbox mailing list quite a while ago.
It's so useful and I use it all the time, so I forgot it's not documented.
Suppose you first installed Blackbox into C:\Blackbox.
Let's call this the (Blackbox) primary directory.
Create another directly, say, C:\Blackbox2.
This will be a (Blackbox) secondary directory.
Create a shortcut to Blackbox.exe and in its Properties dialog, add parameter /Use C:\Blackbox2 to the command line, and put C:\Blackbox2 in the Start in: slot.
Now if you run the shortcut, Blackbox will operate as follows:
at any attempt to read a file (e.g. an *.ocf) it will first look into the secondary directory as if it were the primary. If the file is not found there, it will look into the primary directory.
Writing a *.ocf etc. will always be into the secondary directory as if it were the primary.
This way one can experiment with things without breaking the original installation. The windows registry is not modified either.
I do all the work in one of the secondary directories (one for each cluster of projects) and only rarely move things that proved their universal usefulness into the primary directory.
Note also that you can simply copy the whole primary directory and run Blackbox there.
The windows registry is only needed if one wants to open a Blackbox document by double-clicking -- or to edit a Blackbox object e.g. in Word -- both occur rarely in my experience, but this depends.
With more apologies,
Cheers
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Fyodor Tkachov
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