Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!LEHIIBM1.BITNET!LUKEN From: LUKEN@LEHIIBM1.BITNET ("Kenneth R. van Wyk") Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Re: Batch file ECHO-ing Message-ID: <8804202335.AA17307@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 20 Apr 88 20:10:06 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 >Oh, by the way, why does my '100 look at my A drive before my ramdrive, >even when I put PATH I:\;A:\; in my autoexec file? Its annoying.. if I >have an editor on my ramdrive as well as my A drive, it looks at A first >and loads the pokey version. If, indeed, that is your path, then DOS will only look at A: first if that's where you're connected. That is, it always looks at the current drive/dir for a program before resorting to the path. I'd suggest that you keep your executables that you want in your ramdrive off of your floppy. An alternative would be to use a program like CED (available from SIMTEL20 in the HZ100 directory) that allows you to set up synonyms. For example, I use FREEMACS on my 100 and I have a synonym set up that, when I type em filename, it interprets it as i:emacsfreemacs.exe. Saves any searching through paths or current drives. Oh yeah, this will only work in DOS 3 or higher... :-) Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Kenneth R. van Wyk = If found wandering aimlessly, = = User Services Senior Consultant = please feed and return... = = Lehigh University Computing Center =-------------------------------= = Internet: = This just in: = = BITNET: = Humptey Dumptey was pushed! = ------------------------------------------------------------------------