Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/17/20:15:47
In article <87wwagdz3k DOT fsf AT hasn DOT dera DOT gov DOT uk>, Ian Miller <itmiller AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
writes:
>Yes, unfortunately under Windows 95 the the OS intervenes and inserts
>C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND at the front of the path if they aren't
>there already. Once you're in the DOS box you can set PATH to what you
>want, but it's not as convenient as just setting it in AUTOEXEC.BAT so I
>generally don't bother. The installation instructions could usefully
>mention this.
I don't know: I just changed my autoexec.bat path statement to this:
set path=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\ELC\DOS
set path=C:\ELC\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%;C:\ELC\PERL\BIN;c:\elc\rsxntdj\bin
..and it comes out like you'd expect, with djgpp first. In Windows.
--Ed (Myknees)
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