From: shayoom AT hotmail DOT com (Jonquil) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: changing "path" in Xp messes with something?! Date: 23 Dec 2002 12:24:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 17 Message-ID: <63b211f7.0212231224.a25adc4@posting.google.com> References: <63b211f7 DOT 0212222050 DOT 6fa01d20 AT posting DOT google DOT com> <63b211f7 DOT 0212230422 DOT 223fb924 AT posting DOT google DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.226.230.37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1040675054 31311 127.0.0.1 (23 Dec 2002 20:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Dec 2002 20:24:14 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > for illustration, here are the contents of my PATH: > > C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\1.3\lib;C:\djgpp\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C: > \php;C:\Python;C:\jdk\bin;C:\Tcl\bin;C:\gs\gs7.04\bin;C:\gs\gs7.04\lib;C: > \Vim\vim61;C:\tex\bin\win32;C:\util;C:\util\im;C:\jakarta\ant\bin;C: > \WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\cygwin\bin;C: > \cygwin\sbin;C:\cygwin\usr\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\sbin;C:\cygwin\usr\local > \bin;C:\cygwin\usr\local\sbin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec > Shared\System > > as you can see, it is possible for PATH to contain multiple directories. Thank you so much for clearing things up for me.. Regards, Shaymaa