Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: FOLLOW-UP: Microsoft C V5.1 Setup Warning Message-ID: <146@atpal.UUCP> Date: 30 Apr 88 18:54:09 GMT References: <1455@slvblc.UUCP> <1468@slvblc.UUCP> Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc. Lines: 15 Summary: PATH=. ??? In article <1468@slvblc.UUCP> slvblc!dick@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Dick Flanagan) writes: > ... Well, well, well. I do, indeed, begin my PATH with a directory of '.', >so at least now I know where that damned '[.]' came from. ... This begs the question, why did you put "." in your PATH in the first place? MS-DOS always searches your current directory (denoted ".") for executables before searching the directories listed in the PATH environment variable. Thus saying PATH=.; forces DOS to search your current directory TWICE for programs stored elsewhere. On a floppy based system this could be time consuming; it seems wasteful anywhere. No wonder MS didn't anticipate it in their install program. -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: are you kidding?