[arachne] Re: <Alt+E> Problems - FreeDos

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>Eric: Do you have to use "set path=" to set the path in FreeDos?

Here are some answers from FreeDos gurus:

> Arkady Belousov:
> "SET" isn't required only for PROMPT and PATH.

> Lester: I have even come across a notion that in ms-dos "set" was 
> used to set other environment variables/parameters but not the 
> path".

> Arkady Belousov: wrong.

> Blair Campbell:
> In Ms-Dos SET PATH worked fine, but there was also a PATH command 
> which would just have the syntax of "PATH D:\FDOS\BIN;...".  That 
> just sets the environment variable PATH exactly the same way as 
> SET PATH though."

In case there are some more post you can find this FreeDos thread 
here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-
user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg05179.html

Lester

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