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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:34:56 -0300
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>,
        Jaime Spellings <abn17 AT dial DOT pipex DOT com>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Setup Problems
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 22:04 23/08/97 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>For emacs, in autoexec.bat or whereever you're going
>to have to sacrafice alot more of your path variable space.
>path=c:\djgpp\gnu\emacs\bin;%path%
>should help some.

Not quite! If you do not mind of using doskey, you can avoid setting the
emacs bin path using:

DOSKEY emacs=c:\djgpp\gnu\emacs\bin\emacs $*

>If there's a way to have all of djgpp first look at djgpp.env then
>we could all get away with one variable being defined and one path statement,
>but I don't know how to do that.

This is not a problem with djgpp, is the chicken and egg problem, before you
start the program, it cannot read the DJGPP.ENV file!

>The problem with dos 6.22 on path is lifo,
>you start using path constructs above then when these
>new pieces displace older parts of your path they simply overwrite those
>older parts.  This is fine until the location of command.com
>gets overwritten.

Yep, that's reason a lot of people starts to use sub-dirs with names with
one or two letters only.

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