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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 19:18:11 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Setup Problems
In-Reply-To: <5u5utd$8ec@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970831191739.17131G-100000@is>
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On 29 Aug 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Uh? What good is a dir full of batches on your path? I have the latest
> version of DOS, 6.22, actually the 7 from win 95, and it doesn't recognize
> a .bat that's not in the current dir. Even if it is on the PATH.

If that's what actually happens on your system, then there's something
terribly wrong with the way you set PATH.  DOS has always known how to
look for batch files along the PATH.  It does for me in every version
I had to work with.

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