From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I can't get the rhide command to work
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:33:27 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Jason Green wrote:

> > This is all good, except there shouldn't be a space after "PATH=", the
> > space will probably stop that command from taking effect.
> 
> Actually, the space *after* the equals sign are ignored by
> COMMAND.COM.  So this most probably is not the problem.

Hmm,

C:\>set PATH= C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%
Too many parameters

What did I do wrong here?

> > > Looking at my AUTOEXEC.BAT file from MS-DOS (as opposed to the edit 
> > > screen), I noticed it has the line "set 
> > > PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND" in place 
> > > of the line "set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%".  So even though I typed 
> > > the line in right, I think it is having problems with it (though this 
> > > may be normal for all I know). 
> > 
> > I don't think this is normal.
> 
> Actually, it _is_ normal.

That's useful to know. ;-)  What is it that causes the line to change?