Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!! Message-ID: <418@tronsbox.xei.com> Date: 5 Jan 91 20:26:41 GMT References: <2467@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <7460@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS Lines: 29 In article <7460@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <2467@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >> Path is braindead. > >Expand on this. I don't have any problems with it. > >> One day I will write an ARexx front-end for it so that I can >> delete one entry in the path, or insert an entry, without having to muck about >> doing things to it manually. > >PATH directory REMOVE >PATH directory ADD > >How automatic would you like to get? > >Peter da Silva. `-_-' Using PATH ADD will add a directory to the end of your path- what if you want to change something in the MIDDLE? You have to reset the whole darn thing. As far as ARP goes, the Commode (sic) commands were out of my C directory within hours of my machine's setup. Never had a problem with them. dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com ...uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis GEnie: D.HEFFERNAN1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I don't understand why you make such a big deal out of everything...haven't you learned; if it's not happenning to me it's not important?" -Murphy Brown