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From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin)
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Subject: Re: PATH Statement
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Date: 15 Feb 91 13:05:13 GMT
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In article <26883@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) says:
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>Thanks for all the replies for lengthening my path, and here is a summary
>and why none of them work. :)
>
>1. "Make BAT directory, set your path to it, and run it that way!"
>

Create a Master batch file. I have one and I called it M.Bat. I have a corresponding
M.Txt file for help and within the batch file, I just do a "for %%f in (...) do goto %%f"

This way I can execute loads of apps without having to have it in the path.



>2.  "Shorten directory names"

>3.  "Move directories to the surface"

>4.  "Put everything in the same directory"

>Also, have you every tried updating something that was kept scattered over
>several drives or directories?  I'm sure no one would want to update their
>compilers if they had a couple of them installed in E:\BIN (  I have 4,
>count 'em, 4 C compilers alone!  TC, TC++, MSC6.00, and MS QC2.5!) and they
>share common names -- TCC, QCC, CL, *.LIB, include files, etc.)
>

I have 6 or 7 compilers but I don't use them all at the same time. Most of them
are for specialized tasks:

TC/TC++   - Utility work
MSC6.0    - Main Apps work and most likely the one setup at any one time.
MSC5.0    - Work with apps that don't work with 6.0.
MS QB3.x - BBS Door programs.
MS QB4.x - Other Basic projects
MegaBasic - Compatibility with older applications.

I generally have MSC6.0, QB4.x and MegaBasic in my path at any one time. In my 
Master batch file, I have the other path and other env vars setup. Then I can type
M turboc when I want to do tc work and M msc6 or msc5 for MSC work.

I also have Windows development libraries, TCXL libraries, Network libraries,
PCTCP libraries, and the occasional odd library. My biggest problem with TC is
I can't put all the libs on the LIB or INCLUDE env var like with MSC.

>5.  "Use 4DOS"

Same problem I have along with Network incompatibilities. Primarily with 3Com.
If I use 4Dos, I cannot link to directories with 3+Share. That blows it out of the water.

>6.  "Switch to UNIX/VMS/APPLE/AMIGA/SOMETHING ELSE"
>
>Sorry, too much software and time invested in what I'm doing right now....

I agree here. I've only been working with PC's since they came out. 200 meg on
line and another 300 off line. Some 55 projects currently being worked on and 5
computers in the house (three of which are IBM clones).

Go with the master batch file and seperate boot files. I'm sure you don't need 
access to all the compilers at once. Of course, I'm not you and you may very
well need all the compilers at one time.

Good luck.

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu