Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis
From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:  What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
Message-ID: <594@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 7 Jan 91 04:37:13 GMT
References: <7460@sugar.hackercorp.com> <418@tronsbox.xei.com> <7471@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS
Lines: 21

In article <7471@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <418@tronsbox.xei.com> dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) writes:
>> 	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.
>
>I think this goes in the category of "getting too cute with your setup". I've
>got a pretty hairy PATH and I've never even considered that it might be nice
>to have that capability. What would you need to do that for (real life examples,
>please, not hypotheticals...)?

	I've done it in the past, though always due to weird situations that
have only cropped up from having to meddle around with floppies.

	I'd probably do it more often if it wasn't such a pain to accomplish.


dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com   ...uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis     GEnie: D.HEFFERNAN1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Using C will definitely cut your life expectancy by 10 years or more."
	-- Carl Sassenrath, GURU'S GUIDE TO THE COMMODORE AMIGA