source file: mills2.txt
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:46:28 -0700

Subject: Re: Scala help

From: pbrewis@cix.compulink.co.uk (Peter Brewis)

In-Reply-To: <009A59D825794BE4.1504@ezh.nl>
Manuel Op de Coul wrote:

> There's the famous anecdote that someone from the East was at a
> concert of Western classical music, and when he was asked how he liked
> it he said he especially liked the first part. So his hosts asked
> whether it was the first movement that he liked, he said "no, before
> that!" I think it was emperor Hirohito but am not sure.

Ha! I hadn't heard that story!

>............... Two things can be wrong. Either you are missing the
> file 'help.par' which should be in the same directory as the program,
> or you are starting the program up from another directory than the
> one it's in. The program namely looks only in the working directory
> for its datafiles: help.par, intnam.par, modenam.par, harmon.par, etc.
> The working directory can be changed from within Scala with 'cd'.

Thank you for trying, but I've checked and I'm afraid it's neither of 
these. I can't think what's wrong. Is the _name_ of the directory 
significant? Do I need a PATH statement in my AUTOEXEC.BAT? Is SCALA 
incompatible with DOSKEY or some device-driver?

Sorry to be a pest.

Peter


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