From:	Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT sloep107 DOT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: ===Autoexec/win/djgpp...SERIOUS PROBLEM!~
Date:	1 Oct 1998 10:05:24 GMT
Organization:	Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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Neotronica <neotronica AT aol DOT com> wrote:
> In an ms-dos window i entered:
> echo set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN >> c:\autoexec.bat

Not so weird.
Edit autoexec.bat to say PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%

The way you did it, you erased dos/windows default path (which is like:
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\) and replaced
it with just C:\DJGPP\BIN. And if win.com isn't in the path, command.com
can't find it.

You also mention multiple autoexec.bat's? Normally only
c:\autoexec.bat is used. Delete/rename the others. Many autoexec.???
are created by install processes of programs, just as a backup, you
only _need_ c:\autoexec.bat.

hth,
 robert
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