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From: lar@pc.usl.edu (Robert Lane A.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Assign & Path (Sometimes)
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Date: 23 Jan 90 21:42:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: jwhitman@stl-06sima.army.mil's message of 22 Jan 90 22:14:01 GMT

In article <8915@nigel.udel.EDU> jwhitman@stl-06sima.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) writes:
	[description of the setup of WordPerfect deleted]

   To use it I added the line Execute S:WPAssigns immediately prior to the
   ENDCLI command on BOOT:S/Startup-Sequence.  After I boot I bring up the 
   WorkBench Shell and do an ASSIGN.  Assign shows all three assigns took 
   place as given.  HOWEVER!!!! Path show does not give either of the two
   path additions.  VERY STRANGE Mr. Holmes.

   Stranger yet - I will now "Execute s/WPAssigns" and do another PATH SHOW
   and the two paths have been added.  Honest Injun Red Ryder!!

I believe the problem is that ASSIGNs are global, but PATH only affects
the shell it is executed under.  Try adding the PATH commands to your
s:shell-startup or equivalent.

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