From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!!!!
Date: 25 Aug 1997 08:18:21 GMT
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firewind (firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org) writes:
> Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA> wrote:
> 
>> Regarding rebooting after changing the autoexec.bat: that isn't actually
>> necessary. Just manually run from the command line each line you added.
>> I.e., insert the set djgpp and path %path%;blah blah bin lines into
>> autoexec.bat, save the changes and exit whatever editor, then type the
>> same two lines at the C:\> prompt.
> 
> This does not work for the PATH statement, since variables used in that manner
> (set PATH=%PATH%;c:\foo) are not evaluated when used from the command line. If
> you want to dynamically add to your path, just write a small batch file
> containing but one line:

Nope... but just PATH %PATH%;C:\foo will work. I have done it, so I should
know. :) Just use SET for the DJGPP variable.

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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh