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Hi Greg M.,
How right you are....That's why
I specified how to get the "path" that I was
referring to. :-) See Below....I typed.....
"> > I get when I type PATH at the prompt and
> > press ENTER. That looks to me like the"
Eric
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:42:16 +1030 "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
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> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:37:50 -0500, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
>
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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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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