Re: dict.spl

["Richard A. Sherer" rasherer@xxxxxxxx]

Judith,
The PATH statement simply tells MS-DOS where to look for program files.
Your path statement will be different from mine or from Nick's because we
all have different programs. If you did all of your word processing in the
\XY4 directory, you wouldn't need to have it in your PATH statement,
because DOS always looks first in the directory where you're working. But
most of us have separate directories for our word processing files, and we
put \XY4 in the PATH statement so DOS can find the necessary
program-related files regardless what directory we're working in.
SUGGESTION: Go to a library and check out a copy of "Running MS-DOS" by Van
Wolverton. Wolverton used to update the book every time a new version of
DOS came out, but the essential chapters about how DOS commands work
generally applied to almost every version. Read the sections on
AUTOEXEC.BAT, on PATH statements, on ENVIRONMENT, etc. -- things that most
of the people on this list take for granted -- or switch to Windows and
forget about it.
Cheers,
Richard A. Sherer


At 02:13 PM 06/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Way back on September 28, 1999, Nick Clifford wrote
>something that might help solve my dictionary problem:
>
> "Make sure that in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file a line reading
>something like SET
>PATH=C:\XY4;%PATH%;C:\PROGRA1\NETWOR1\MCAFEE1 is inserted at
>the end. If you loaded Xy4 from disks, no doubt this line
>already appears. If you don't have this line, you will not
>be able to use the XyWrite spelling dictionary unless you're
>in the XyWrite 4 directory."
>
> This comment was an aside in a response to someone who had
>a problem with a Dell 400 mz celeron with Win98 2nd ed, with
>McAfee factory installed.
>
>I have a different Dell with Win98 v4.10.98 and my problem
>in using spellcheck while logged into any directory but xy4
>predates my installing McAfee.
>
> I would like to try
> SET PATH=C:\XY4;%PATH%;C:\PROGRA1\NETWOR1\MCAFEE1
> in my autoexec.bat, but do I lift Nick's example whole? Do
>I substitute something of my own for "PROGRA1" and
>"NETWOR1"--and if so, are there any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Judith Davidsen
>