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From: hadgraft@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PATH for Windows applications
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.141115.86879@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 14 Jun 91 04:11:14 GMT
References: <hn6lhp085C@humpty.edb.tih.no>
Organization: Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia
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In article <hn6lhp085C@humpty.edb.tih.no>, ole@edb.tih.no (Ole Nymoen) writes:
> 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,
>
> You don't have to include their directories in the path.  Most Windows

Let's say SOME, eg. winword and excel, as has been pointed out already. Others,
eg. GUIDE, must be in the PATH.

> 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

Actually, this is not quite correct. You can setup an icon in PM using the full
path name, and you can do the same with the [Extensions] facility in WIN.INI.
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