USERABFY@CLVM.CLARKSON.EDU (Roger Gonzalez) (04/21/88)
I'm not sure if I already asked this, but does anyone have a patch
for MSDOS to make ECHO default to OFF, so that I don't have to start
every batch file with ECHO OFF?
Oh, by the way, why does my '100 look at my A drive before my ramdrive,
even when I put PATH I:\;A:\; in my autoexec file? Its annoying.. if I
have an editor on my ramdrive as well as my A drive, it looks at A first
and loads the pokey version.
RogerLUKEN@LEHIIBM1.BITNET ("Kenneth R. van Wyk") (04/21/88)
>Oh, by the way, why does my '100 look at my A drive before my ramdrive, >even when I put PATH I:\;A:\; in my autoexec file? Its annoying.. if I >have an editor on my ramdrive as well as my A drive, it looks at A first >and loads the pokey version. If, indeed, that is your path, then DOS will only look at A: first if that's where you're connected. That is, it always looks at the current drive/dir for a program before resorting to the path. I'd suggest that you keep your executables that you want in your ramdrive off of your floppy. An alternative would be to use a program like CED (available from SIMTEL20 in the HZ100 directory) that allows you to set up synonyms. For example, I use FREEMACS on my 100 and I have a synonym set up that, when I type em filename, it interprets it as i:emacsfreemacs.exe. Saves any searching through paths or current drives. Oh yeah, this will only work in DOS 3 or higher... :-) Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Kenneth R. van Wyk = If found wandering aimlessly, = = User Services Senior Consultant = please feed and return... = = Lehigh University Computing Center =-------------------------------= = Internet: <LUKEN@VAX1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU> = This just in: = = BITNET: <LUKEN@LEHIIBM1> = Humptey Dumptey was pushed! = ------------------------------------------------------------------------