Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sobeco!sdesmara From: sdesmara@sobeco.com (s.desmarais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!! Message-ID: <1991Jan8.014329.13622@sobeco.com> Date: 8 Jan 91 01:43:29 GMT References: <2467@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <7460@sugar.hackercorp.com> <418@tronsbox.xei.com> <7471@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: @sobeco.com Organization: Groupe Sobeco, Montreal, Canada Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: sobeco.sobeco.com In <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. Well, not even Unix allows that, short of using tools like 'sed' and such. At least, however, it allows adding to either the end or the front of the PATH. >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...)? >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. One such example is when you have some commands with the same name has the Commodore supplied one, and want your own before in the PATH. However, it's true that you usually do that in the startup-sequence. It would be nice to be able to add either to the end or front (I know, I'm repeating myself). sdesmara@sobeco.com -- Stephane M. Desmarais sdesmara@sobeco.com Division STS - Groupe Sobeco Inc. {uunet | mcgill-vision}!sobeco.com!sdesmara 505 boul Rene-Levesque Ouest bur: (514) 878-9090 poste 297 Montreal, Quebec fax: (514) 875-2673