[arachne] Re: <Alt+E> Problems - FreeDos
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:21:50 -0500
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Hi Lester,
Thank you for the explanation.
Do you have to use "set path=" to set the
path. In MSDOS just "path=x:\abc" will set the
path. Set is used to set other environment
variables/parameters but not the path.
You can:
set path1=x:\abc
set path2=x:\def
And then change to path of choice by:
path=%path1% ... or ... path=%path2%
or also
set oldpath=%path%
path=new path
and then switch back with:
path=%oldpath%
If you want to put all your files you want to
use globally into one directory then that is
your prerogative....but....the reason for the
path is so you don't have to have them all
in the same directory.
Eric
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:09:58 -0500 "Lester" <fd100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> > Eric: In fact, what you show below doesn't even look like your
> path
>
> It is my path, D:\Fdos\Bin
>
> http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/926/11252006020924ta4.png
>
> > Rob: just as m$dos uses c:\dos and DrDOS uses c:\drdos and then
> > additional programs have to keep adding to the PATH statement, and
>
> > directories scattershot all over the system, FreeDOS touches on
> the
> > 'nix system of keeping things much more organized and everything
> in
> > it's place. You pretty much never put anything in the root
> > directory.
>
> And here is what's inside d:\fdos\bin, all vital dos staff plus my
> own batch files:
>
> http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/1515/11252006021225eb5.png
>
> All other dos files are here:
>
> http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2285/11252006022225qj7.png
>
> The only four files that I have on drive C are:
>
> http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5609/11252006021405wp5.png
>
> Fdconfig.sys is equivalent of ms-dos Config.sys and Fdauto.bat is
> equivalent of ms-dos Autoexec.bat. You can use either file name,
> those FreeDos special names make it easier to install another
> version
> of Dos on the same drive.
>
> FreeDos really only needs these two files on drive C:
>
> - kernel.sys
> - config.sys (or fdconfig.sys)
>
> You can put command.com and autoexec.bat (or fdauto.bat) on any
> other
> drive, just modify the last line in config.sys accordingly, from
> this
>
> SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT
>
> to this:
>
> SHELL=D:\COMMAND.COM /P=D:\FDAUTO.BAT
>
> The reason I reduced the number of files on drive C is that I ran
> into problems with FreeDos' Defrag. It just wouldn't work on my
> Fat32
> partition (drive C) when all FreeDos files were placed there. With
> just four files on the drive Defrag works fine.
>
> Here is the screenshot of Fdauto.bat with SET PATH= command:
>
> http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9114/11252006022508va6.png
>
> I didn't even know that you can use semicolons with "set path="
> command to make it look like, eg:
>
> set path=d:\fdos\bin;d:\arachne;d:\mybin
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> > Eric: I have never seen a working DOS setup that only had one
> > directory in it's path. That would mean that everything would have
>
> > to be put into that directory to be globally accessible. That
> would
> > be poor organization of files in my opinion. That way batch files
> > that are put in d:\arc\, his main arachne directory, will be
> always
> > accessible.
>
> I won't put any custom batch files into d:\arc because I always like
>
> to clean install all upgrades, in which case it would just make
> more work. But I keep it in mind. For now the single directory setup
>
> works just fine.
>
> My FreeDos version is the distro from Dec-2005 but all vital files
> have been individually updated to the latest versions.
>
> Lester
>
> -----
> PS: I also love this FreeDos special command: CDD
>
> http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/325/11252006024253jk2.png
>
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