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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PATH Statement
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Date: 14 Feb 91 02:13:58 GMT
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In article <26883@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>
>Thanks for all the replies for lengthening my path, and here is a summary
>and why none of them work. :)
>
	[DELETIONS]
>PS Thanks for the help anyway....this is highly annoying.

	I never need a long PATH. I handle this problem this way:

	-In AUTOEXEC.BAT I set an Environment variable to my
basic standard PATH and then set PATH equal to it:

	SET STDPATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\BIN\DOS;C:\BIN\UNIX;C:\BATCH
	PATH %STDPATH%

	-Then when I need to add another deeply embedded directory,
I add it momentarily to my path in a batch file, and then return
my path to the relatively short standard path. For example, running
WordPerfect might be initiated in a batch file C:\BATCH\WP.BAT
containing the following lines:

	@echo off
	path %path%;C:\LIB\WORDPROC\WP
	WP
	path %stdpath%
	echo on


	This way my path grows only for the time I am running the
application. Then the path is returned to the short standard path.
That way you do not have to drag around a lot of excess baggage on 
your path that is only needed during the running of an application.


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