Re: XP colors

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Harry Binswanger  Thu, 03 Mar
2005 22:44:29 -0500

Harry:

First things first. Your CMD.EXE syntax is wrong. It should be

%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\xy\editor.exe

You need the switch /C. Make sure the "Start in:" field (in
Properties) has "C:\xy" (no quotes necessary).

> And I note that Carl in a post of 6/20/03 says to edit my path
> statement in autoexec.nt in the system32 folder of Windows.

No such post from me on that date. Are you referring to this:

http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/xysearch.cgi?xywrite/2004/msg01273.htm

> I got up [AUTOEXEC.NT] in Notepad, and it had no path statement
> in it. I tried adding: path=c:\xy but that wreaked havoc: Xy
> got into some state where it was oscillating between two
> untitled windows and wouldn't stop.

You didn't edit the Path; you demolished it -- made "c:\xy" the sole
directory in the Path! Remember that the system establishes a Path
when you boot up. You can APpend C:\xy to the existing Path with

path=%path%;c:\xy\;

or PREpend it with

path=c:\xy\;%path%

(You could also write the entire Path out longhand and insert
"c:\xy\;" somewhere in it, but I wouldn't recommend it. Too easy to
make mistakes.)

Instead of editing AUTOEXEC.NT, you can edit the Path statement in
Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables; in the
System variables listbox, scroll down to Path, click on it to
highlight it, then click Edit. Add "C:\xy\;" (no quotes) at the end
of the Path statement; make sure that it is separated from the
preceding directory name by a (single) semicolon, and add a trailing
semicolon after it. Click OK to save the change.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx