Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!pat.edb.tih.no!humpty.edb.tih.no!ole From: ole@edb.tih.no (Ole Nymoen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: PATH for Windows applications Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 12:46:35 GMT Organization: TIH/TISIP Lines: 21 Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 91.03.14.02 (running under MS-Windows) 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. There is such a simple solution to this problem, that >I can't believe that so many developers don't use it. All an application has to >do is store the home directory in WIN.INI or its own .INI file. Problem solved. >Then my path wouldn't have to look like this: > >c:\windows;c:\winmisc;c:\pif;c:\winword;c:\excel3;c:\toolbook; etc > >...... You don't have to include their directories in the path. Most Windows programs don't need it (includine notepad, write, excel, w4w, ++). You do however have to specify the full program name when You want to start the program from program manager or indirectly from the [Extensions] section in win.ini Ole Nymoen Norway