From: Paul <nospam AT nowhere DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help! I can't Install Allegro
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:40:50 -0500
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Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> Paul wrote:
> >
> > Actually, what I had to do was add %PATH% after each senicolon in that
> > line, though thanks for leading me on the right track.
> 
> You shouldn't have to do that; it's redundant and will waste your
> environment space.  Try something like
> 
> PATH %PATH%;C:\WINDOWS;...
> 
> The %PATH% at the beginning is safer.

Thanks.  It does seem to make Windows 95 a little slower to load.  Is
this normal?  
It does also make DJGPP work much better.  Before I could only use the
command line commands within the bin directory.