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From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SEZ: a suggestion for the next version...
Message-ID: <26091@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 88 23:16:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: tut.26091
References: <5450@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <4529@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.osu-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman)
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In <4529@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Under MS-DOS 3.x, it can look at the environment area, and find its own
>pathname just beyond that area.
>
>Under both MS-DOS 2.x and MS-DOS 3.x, it can get the value of PATH from
>the environment, and search each directory in the list for itself.
>
>Adding either of these to Sez-created archives would mean additional
>overhead of perhaps a few hundred bytes.  It didn't seem worth it at
>one time.  It could be added if people really need it.

This would be wonderful!  We are distributing software in a series of
SEZs and we have to copy them to a hard disk, execute them, then delete
them.  It would be great to be able to extract them directly from the
floppy.

I'm still looking into the CompuServe distribution issue.









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