Re: Setting paths in NT

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> I have Editor's path ONLY in my DOS Path (yes, you set Paths via Control Panel,
> never in a BATch file -- why do you need a BATfile anyway?).
But I run at least one OTHER DOS app, that needs its
paths set quite differently. If you set the path in
Control Panel, doesn't that then hold true for ALL DOS
sessions?

 Why do you need
> to set paths to GS? You enter the paths to GS/GSView in U2's REG file, and
> that's the end of it.
Well, back when I was first having problems with Xy2PDF
(12/05-1/05), we discovered that it was because GSView
WASN'T in the path.
> You NEVER call a PIF directly, period. PIFs are for
> Shortcuts.
I think we've got our terminology scrambled again. I
mean that I have a shortcut on my desktop, on which I
right-click to modify its properties. As those
properties are stored in the pif (aren't they?), I've
been saying pif. But of course I don't--cannot, as far
as I know--call a pif directly.
> I guess I don't understand what you're trying to do, or why the need. What is
> different about XyWrite that you can't establish in the normal way, and thus
> need a BATfile?
On some of my boxes, Xy is in a directory on drive d:
So I need to
cd d:\xydir
d:
editor
Plus also setting the path to include the GS
directories. IN 9x, I have the shortcut pointing
directly to d:\xydir\editor.exe, but also specify a
batfile (c:\runxy.bat) that includes the path
statements and the first two commands above.
Simply put: Is there any way in W2K that you can set
separate paths for different VDMs? And then have
separate shortcuts pointing one to one DOS app with its
specialized VDM and another pointing to another DOS app
with its VDM?

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx