Re: Further to XY under XP: finding config.xy

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harmon Seaver wrote:
>   All this talk about changing directorys and drives -- isn't is much
> simpler to just have the dirs you want to use in your path statement in
> autoexec.bat?
There is no autoexec.bat under XP (or W2K). That's part of my
problem. I'm trying--with much help from Robert--to figure out
how some of the things that used to be done there should now be done.
And because paths in Windows can be very long, and paths eat up
memory, I'd prefer to include the items necessary to run a DOS
app ONLY when running that app. Windows 9x does restore the
original Windows path when one exits a DOS session (I suspect
"restore" is not the right word; it was probably there all along,
supplemented by the path set in the DOS session's batch file).
But if batch files aren't needed, where does one set the path for
an NTVDM, when one wants that path to be operative only for that
VDM session? Will try if it can be done in autoexec.nt.

 I'm not sure about windows anymore, but that's how I've
> always set it up. The \xy4 dir is in the path statement, so when dos
> starts up, all I have to do is type "editor" at the C:\ prompt and
> bingo, xy starts up, startup.int takes me first to c:\xy4, then to
> c:\docs. Same for any other app. No matter what drive they're on.
>  In fact I don't even have to type "editor", I can just have that in my
> autoexec.bat as the last statement, right after starting lex.


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Patricia M. Godfrey
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