Re: glitch putting Xywrite on Windows XP

[Lynn Brenner lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxx]

Carl,

You're right that there's really no need to modify the Path globally, although Option (1) sounds easy. (I took at look at Path under System Variables, and I notice it ends with three dots ... If I edited the Path by appending E:\xy, would it be important to repeat those three dots at the end?)


I think I'd rather go with Option (2), taking this opportunity to write a BATch file for the first time. Since I'm a beginner, please forgive a few very very basic followup questions:

Should I write this file at the Dos prompt? Alternatively, can I write it in Windows Notebook -- and if so, where do I save it?


Lynn
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Lynn:




The corrected path (in E:\autoexec.bat) is ...




You don't edit AUTOEXEC.BAT to change the Path in Win XP. You have two options. Option (1) is to modify the Path globally, by doing the following:



Click Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced

Click on Environment Variables; under System Variables, find Path, and click on it.

Click Edit, then append E:\XY to the existing Path.

Close the edit window.



Alternatively, if you have setx.exe on your system, you can open a CMD window and issue (once):



setx.exe path %PATH%;E:\XY



Option (2) is to set the Path in the XyWrite session only, by launching XyWrite from a BATch file, like this:



@echo off

path %PATH%;e:\xy

editor.exe



Option (1) seems like overkill to me, since XyWrite is (probably) the only program that needs to have the \XY directory in the Path. For myself, I use Option (2).



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Carl Distefano

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