Re: Environment Space in XP

Alan Secker wrote:

>> Just to guild the lilly a bit...
>> When a batch file is called, a new invocation of cmd.exe or
>> command.com is executed with *a copy* of the environment as it existed
>> at the time of the call.  Any changes to the environment of the batch
>> file, affect only the batch file (and any children it calls), and are
>> discarded by the OpSys when the batch file terminates.  Essentially
>> all the environment variables are passed "by value", rather than "by
>> reference".
>> 
>> Just so the reason why this did not work is clear...
>> 
>> David A. Smith
> 
> I have just realised why I was barking up the wrong tree. XP handles
> environment variables differently from Win9x. So although the path was
> plugged into AUTOEXEC.NT the other path variables for INCLUDE, LIB etc
> were entered where they should have been, in the dialog box set aside
for
> doing just that:
> 
> 1) right-click My computer
> 2) Select Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables
> 3) In the non-system zone (the upper one), select new and plug 'em in
one
> after the other.
> 
> Although I kept ploughing through Google I had been using the wrong
> string.
> 
> Thanks everyone for all your help.
> 
> Alan

I should have added that the PATH statement has been moved from the
AUTOEXEC.NT file to the environment area above, and that I switched back
to
cmd.exe which has the doskey features built in. I hope the this is useful
to anyone else having the same problem.

Alan