From: d AT philipkdick DOT com (Daniel Rauhaus) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: WindowsME installation trouble Date: 31 Aug 2001 16:28:24 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9010375.dip.t-dialin.net (217.1.3.117) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 999275304 3380014 217.1.3.117 (16 [24715]) User-Agent: Xnews/4.04.10 Hamster/1.3.22.101 X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/1.3.22.101 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Lafollette8 AT cs DOT com wrote: > I have tried a million different ways to install DJGPP on my computer, > which uses WindowsME. > I use notepad to edit my autoexec.bat file, but the PATH line is never > the same as how I saved it. As you will see below, all kinds of things > get added onto that line when I reboot. Don't use Notepad (or any other text editor) for editing AUTOEXEC.BAT as Windows will restore the original settings during the next boot. Use the "environment" tab in the "System Configuration Utility" (msconfig) to manipulate the PATH setting. Daniel