Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Hi Rob, I don't know 'nix or Freedos. I just know that looks nothing like what I get when I type PATH at the prompt and press ENTER. That looks to me like the path to his files in his "bin" directory. Does Freedos have a different way of displaying the path ? Eric On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:02:09 -0600 (CST) robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > Eric, > I would say that is his PATH, if he is using FreeDOS. > FreeDOS has a fair bit of 'nix influence. > Rob > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Eric S. Emerson wrote: > > > > Hi Lester, > > I learned that my path should always > > include: > > 1. The root directory of my boot drive which is > > always C: in all my computers. > > 2. The directory where all my DOS commands/utilities > > are stored. > > 3. The Arachne main directory if I am running Arachne. > > > > So that would be: path= c:\;c:dos;d:\arachne in my case. > > > > I may also sometimes add other directories if they > > contain programs/files that I want global access to. > > > > I don't know your computer setup so I can't really > > comment on your path.......except......... I am surprized > > that I don't see the Arachne main directory included. > > In fact, what you show below doesn't even look like > > your path. Your path is the line returned when you > > type PATH at a DOS prompt and press ENTER. > > > > Eric > > > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:15:15 -0500 "Lester" <fd100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > writes: > >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > >> > >>> Eric: If you put CDA.BAT in your PATH, then you can use it from > the > >> > >> command prompt when you're in DOS. There are many times that I > want > >> to return to my Arachne main directory and do something before I > >> start up Arachne. > >> > >> Might be a good idea, I put it there. Btw, my path is: > d:\fdos\bin > >> > > > snip<.................................................................... > > ..............^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > Arachne at FreeLists > > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > > > > > > > > -- > -----Pine Email on Slackware GNU/Linux----- > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > > Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --