Re: WIN Path

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Avrom Fischer wrote:

>    What I wanted and still want to find out was and is how you
> set a path in WINDOWS XP, not in Dos. I knew what the path was.
>
> What I had wanted to know about path was how to change it in Windows
> XP. It is very simple in Dos, you can change the path statement in
> the autoexec.bat.  both through Search and through Index in the
> "Help and Support Center" of Windows XP I could not find any
> reference to changing the path.    With regard to the reference
> to autoexec.bat I was not asking you what it was. I referred to it
> as "a" file called autoexec.bat to indicate
> that it was a superfluous file that had no function.
>
>
> Hi Avrom,
>
> This has probably already been answered by now, but -- after 6 trips
> from Thanksgiving to early this month -- I have a great deal of
> email that was either glanced at on the road, or so far not
> processed at all.
>
> You are correct that the files Autoexec.Bat and Autoexec.NT are
> marginal, with rather limited and specific uses. (But the former
> can still have relevance for DOS programs running under Win.) The
> *real* PATH in Win-32 OSes gets tucked away in an obscure area
> called "Environment Variables" that can be hard to find, on the few
> occasions that one goes looking for it. I know it still causes me
> some consternation to this day, perhaps because I don't use Win very
> much, and don't run my DOS or 16-bit Win programs from there. The
> location of this section, which controls more than just the Path,
> has changed somewhat from NT-4 to W2K. I don't have XP installed
> here (at the present time), so I can't tell you where it resides for
> this OS. I bet they've moved it again. But I could take a look in
> W2K, if that might furnish a clue. However, the Path in
> Autoexec.Bat may be what you really need -- if you are running
> Xy4DOS -- along with appropriate tailoring of the shortcut
> Properties.
>
>
> Jordan
>