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On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:37:50 -0500, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
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> 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 ?
There could be a confusion in terminology here.
1. In the line "C:\ARACHNE\RHUBARB.TXT" the part "C:\ARACHNE\" is
commonly refered to as the path to that file. This is the most
common meaning of the term "path".
2. There is an environment variable PATH which is a list of
default paths for DOS to search when looking for an
executeable that has been specified without a path in a
command.
3. There is also the path that is usually displayed in the DOS
prompt, which is the path to the current drive and directory.
I mentioned this in case you and Rob and Lester were talking at
cross-purposes.
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