ornstein@parity.dec.com (01/20/87)
Would someone be so kind as to describe and recommend an organization of subdirectories, environment variables and path command for MS-DOS 3.2 on an XT clone. Thanks, - Ian -
lotto@wjh12.UUCP (Jerry Lotto) (01/21/87)
In article <7682@decwrl.DEC.COM> ornstein@parity.dec.com writes: > > Would someone be so kind as to describe and recommend > an organization of subdirectories, environment variables > and path command for MS-DOS 3.2 on an XT clone. Sure. My setup looks like this: Root: COMMAND.COM (read only) CONFIG.SYS (hidden+read only) contains: SHELL = C:\COMMAND.COM /P C:\ /E:4096 STACKS = 64,128 BREAK = ON BUFFERS = 32 FCBS = 32,16 FILES = 20 LASTDRIVE = J DEVICE = C:\SYS\DEV\ANSI.SYS DEVICE = other devices ^Z AUTOEXEC.BAT (hidden+read only) echo off ! is patched anyway cls prompt $p$g path=c:\usr\bat;c:\usr\bin;c:\sys\bin;c:\wp\wp;c:\usr\etc\app1;c:\usr\etc\app2;c:\usr\home;d:; ! include only commonly used apps, see usr\bat for alternative set home=c:\usr\home set tmp=c:\tmp set temp=c:\tmp set lib=c:\usr\lib set include=c:\lang\c\include set editor=your favorite set term=ansi set a host of others echo Files in C:\TMP: ls c:\tmp d: ^Z SYS BIN - DOS commands DEV - DOS device drivers and dangerous commands USR BIN - user programs with few data files DEV - user device drivers and dangerous programs BAT - batch files including 1 liners like: c:\path\program %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 HOME - initialization files, help files... LIB - common librarys, termcap, etc. SPOOL MAIL - wishful thinking ETC WINDOWS NU ... directories for user programs that require many datafiles or are themselves collections of programs TMP - swap area WP WP - Word Perfect, my favorite word processor TXT - Word Perfect documents TXT - non-Word Perfect documents GRAPH GRAPH1 - specific graphics program directorys PICS - data for GRAPH1 ... DB - database stuff database program 1 directory DB - databases for program 1 database program 2 directory DB - databases for program 2 COMM - communications KERM - kermit (or whatever) PCTCP - No home should be without it LANG - should be self evident C - could be nested again if you have more than 1 compiler ie: lang\c\msc\... LIB INCLUDE SYS SRC PAS LIB SRC ... STAT - statistical analysis STAT1 - specific program 1 DATA - for program 1 ... Hope this helps. I set up all machines I can get my hands on like this and it seems to work very well for the people that use them.