23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
4:30 p.m.
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
3.xx added support for path in executution (you could
run a program that
was in a different directory than the one that you were in)
Typo? I remember MS-DOS 2.11? on the HP150A in 1983 supporting a
PATH environment variable which COMMAND.COM would use to search for
executable programs.
-Frank McConnell
23 Jul
23 Jul
6:04 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Frank McConnell wrote:
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
No, I wasn't clear what I meant.
If you are in the \SUB1 directory, in DOS 2.xx, and you wanted to run WS
3.xx added support for path in executution (you
could run a program that
was in a different directory than the one that you were in)
Typo? I remember MS-DOS 2.11? on the HP150A in 1983 supporting a
PATH environment variable which COMMAND.COM would use to search for
executable programs. from the WORDSTAR directory, you had to either have
\WORDSTAR listed in
your PATH command (environment variable), or do CD \WORDSTAR and
THEN type
WS.
Starting with 3.00, you could type \WORDSTAR\WS to run it.
(2.xx did not permit a subdirectory path as part of the command portion of
the command line)
6:33 p.m.
At 02:14 PM 7/23/03 -0700, Frank McConnell wrote:
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
I'm not sure when the PATH feature was added to IBM PC DOS but it
wasn't uncommon for different manufacturers to add features in different
versions. In fact, the same versions from different manufacturers seldom
had exactly the same features. Compaq always seemed to add features to
earlier versions of DOS than IBM did.
Joe
3.xx added support for path in executution (you
could run a program that
was in a different directory than the one that you were in)
Typo? I remember MS-DOS 2.11? on the HP150A in 1983 supporting a
PATH environment variable which COMMAND.COM would use to search for
executable programs.
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