From:	myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp find OK?
Date:	17 Jun 1998 22:06:30 GMT
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In article <87wwagdz3k DOT fsf AT hasn DOT dera DOT gov DOT uk>, Ian Miller <itmiller AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
writes:
>Yes, unfortunately under Windows 95 the the OS intervenes and inserts
>C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND at the front of the path if they aren't
>there already. Once you're in the DOS box you can set PATH to what you
>want, but it's not as convenient as just setting it in AUTOEXEC.BAT so I
>generally don't bother. The installation instructions could usefully
>mention this.

I don't know: I just changed my autoexec.bat path statement to this:
set path=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\ELC\DOS
set path=C:\ELC\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%;C:\ELC\PERL\BIN;c:\elc\rsxntdj\bin

..and it comes out like you'd expect, with djgpp first.  In Windows.

--Ed (Myknees)

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