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Date:	Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:06:04 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Win 3.1 TCPIP HELP

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> Just want to see if I've got this right:
> Capture the existing PATH to a temp file,
> bring it into your editor of choice,
> tack some new item on at the end,
> then re-issue the edited version from an OS/2 command prompt,
> and voila, you have an altered Path until the next reboot ?

Foxey,

The PATH is an environment variable. All environment variables may be
referenced by placing their name between % symbols.

Thus, to put something at the beginning of the path,

set path=C:\foxey;%path%

and to put it at the end of the path,

set path=%path%;C:\foxey;

Note that the PATH variable often already has a trailing ";" so in my
second example the ";" before C: isn't necessary but it doesn't hurt
anything _and_ it will keep the PATH from failing if the original PATH
does not have a trailing ";".

- Peter

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