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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, Kbwms AT aol DOT com,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:37:35 +0000
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Subject: Re: LBInstDJ
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: 
> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > > What do you recommend for those poor souls whose path variable is already
> > > filled to overflowing?
> > 
> > Nothing, it needs the user intervention. 
> 
> It needs at least to be detected.  Here's one way:
> 
>    set OLDPATH=%PATH%
>    set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%
>    if not "%PATH%"=="C:\DJGPP\BIN;%OLDPATH%" echo ERROR

I don't fully agree, this should be reported by a tool like djverify because 
printing error doesn't help the user, but if djverify detects that the djgpp 
directory isn't in the path but is in the autoexec.bat can give some hints 
about it (PATH overflow or overwrite or never reached).

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