Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!damask!lowey
From: lowey@damask.UUCP (Kevin Lowey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to add to PATH on the fly?
Summary: MS-DOS 2.00 has a bug
Message-ID: <1113@damask.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 88 23:30:14 GMT
References: <688@crcmar.crc.uucp> <6836@cup.portal.com>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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In article <6836@cup.portal.com>, Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com writes:
> To add additional directories to your path, make a batch file (ADDPATH.BAT):
> PATH %PATH%;%1
> 
> then invoke:
> ADDPATH 


  Be aware that version 2.00 (I think) of MS-DOS has a bug in that 
everything after the %PATH% is ignored (or any environment variable referenced
this way).  The solution is to change the path command to:

  PATH %1;%PATH%


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