From: i96csm AT river DOT tay DOT ac DOT uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Newbie Coder Seeks Helful Advice ;)
Message-ID: <1997Oct3.134314.4@river.tay.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Oct 97 13:43:14 +0100
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In article <3434015C DOT 349A AT nortel DOT ca>, Ian Chapman <ichapman AT nortel DOT ca> writes:
> Matthew,
>      the %path% I've not seen that in the dos manual where does
> this %  % use come from I was curious the first time I installed
> djgpp.
> 
>          Regards Ian.
> 

set path=%path%;c:\djgpp\bin

means take the current value of path, then appends ;c:\djgpp\bin to it
and store it back in path

 
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