kwong@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ka Chin Wong) (03/24/90)
Instead of using the path utilities, someone suggested the following > setlocal > set path=temp_pathname;%path% > run_program_here > endlocal This is indeed a very good idea. I immediately change all my bat files accordingly. But then I found out I have 1.5k less conventional memory when I run these batch files. I guess the reason is that 4DOS makes a snapshot of the current envoirnment called "data" and stores it in main memory. It does not swap it to my UMB or EMS memory. In my case, all I want is the modifiy the path. I don't need to preserve any other information like history or aliases. As long as I am still running MSDOS, this little 1.5k memory is GOLD to me. Thanks for the suggestion though. Following is a respond to the person who said I was hacking the 4DOS envoirnment ---------------------------------------------- Take this in quote "I do NOT hack, I program." The interrupt I used for the path utilities are well documented by 4DOS near the end of the command reference. I followed the guide line to write my programs. If you consider this hacking, then 4DOS is definitely a hacker's product. Please give some credit to the programmers. Rick Wong Computer Science California Polytechnic State University