Date:	Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:45:33 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Jeremy Thomas <yasper AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: New to DJGPP and programming,please help?
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Jeremy Thomas wrote:

> path=c:\windows;c:\;maybe some other stuff here
> 
> What you want to do is add    ;c:\djgpp\bin  to that line, (assumming djgpp
> is in c:\djgpp, if not use the full path to the directory where you
> installed djgpp). Remember that all the paths in this line need to be
> separated by a semi-colon like this:
> 
> path=c:\windows;c:\djgpp\bin;c:\

I suggest to put c:\djgpp\bin FIRST, before the Windows directories.
This will make sure you don't run, e.g., Windows' FIND.EXE instead of
the (much more powerful and incompatible) version supplied with
Findutils package.  The same goes for SORT.EXE vs the version in GNU
Textutils.

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