Chris Wagner wrote:
The path variable is set solely, and exclusively, in autoexec.bat. There
should be a line in there that says PATH=C:\.... That and that alone will
be the path value in any command prompt windows u open under 98 and indeed
for all of Windows unless it is later modified by the starting shortcut that
...
than that, then it's the shortcut's fault. Keep in mind that in
autoexec.bat there can be multiple cumulative path= statements.
Although this is getting off-topic, let me add that, at least in MS DOS
6.22, you can also set the path in CONFIG.SYS, using a SET statement,
and that PATH statements in AUTOEXEC.BAT aren't cumulative under MS DOS,
they simply replace the old path with the new one. Don't know about Win 9x.
Hans
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