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From: akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PATH for Windows applications
Summary: not a problem...
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.184053.12028@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 18:40:53 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.095516.86840@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> hadgraft@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft) writes:
>One of the things I find annoying about most major Windows applications, is that
>their directories must be included in the PATH. If you use a number of them,
>your PATH gets quite long. 
>Perhaps noone else sees this as a problem. I'd be interested in your views.

I don't have this problem, and here is why...

I'll try and describe my setup with Excel and Winword as examples.
Some directory info:

Windows 	d:\windows
Winword		d:\winword
Excel		e:\excel

Path on entering windows (something like):
	c:\;c:\dos;c:\utilitys;d:\windows;d:\windows\utilitys;d:\windows\pif
		e:\memacs

Note that this does not include either winword or excel

In the extensions part of Win.ini, I have the following:

doc=d:\winword\winword.exe
xl?=d:\excel\excel.exe

I also have usher set up to run excel and winword with the complete
path name defined. As a result, if I run either from my shell (usher),
the full path info is available, so I don't have a problem. If I
double click on an icon, then windows knows the full path, so that
isn't a problem either.

On the other hand, I do have a problem with memacs, which insists on
being in the path, and grumbles about not being able to find its
various .cmd files if it isn't in the path.

Hope this helps,

kartik
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