Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/01/22:21:33
Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) wrote:
: Fun Fact: Laborious ten minute reboots are not needed when modifying
: autoexec.bat. Instead, change the file, then enter the same lines at the
: dos prompt. I.e. set path = %PATH%;C:\DJGPP\BIN and Set
: djgpp=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV. Then go ahead and run djgpp. Unfortunately, the
: same is not true of config.sys.
No, that doesn't work; MS-DOS's COMMAND.COM doesn't expand %PATH%
correctly if you type it at the prompt. It only works in batch files.
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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.
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