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Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Friday, 7 Jun 1991 07:54:57 EST
From: Aengus Lawlor <RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Message-ID: <91158.075457RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PATH for Windows applications
References: <1991Jun6.095516.86840@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
 <1991Jun6.184053.12028@cs.uoregon.edu>

In article <1991Jun6.184053.12028@cs.uoregon.edu>, akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu
(Anant Kartik Mithal) says:
>
>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.
>
I use Extra! for Windows (3270 emulation), and one of it's (very) annoying
habits is that it changes directory to the extrawin dir, so that when you
exit windows you aren't in the dir you started out in. Has anyone else
encountered this, and been bothered enough to do something about it?

Aengus
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