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From: rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: SET command
Message-ID: <8ZBBln200WB78PcV1j@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 89 18:48:19 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I have a Hazelwood UniQuad I (68008) OS9/68000 machine here on campus
that I brought from home. Unfortunately, I didn't bring all the documentation
for it, and the other day I ran into something interesting. I typed
'set PATH /h0/something or other'
and the drive fired up seeking furiously for a while and then came back
with

 ^syntax error

I haven't ever gotten a chance to read all the documentation, but I tried
this command anyway, hoping that it would do something resembling the unix
equivalent, which allows the user to set several paths to search for commands
(executable files.) What exactly does the 'set' command do, and how
do you use it properly?