What's the story with DOS search paths?

[Clemson]

Anyone know where I can find a tutorial about search paths
and how to use them.

Thanks

 

[n0cmonkey]

Search paths meaning the $PATH environment variable?

 

[CTho9305]

dos, not *nix

at a dos prompt type:
SET PATH=blah;blah2;blah3
now whenever you try to run a program, dos will check through the 3 paths there for an executable if there is none int he current directory.

SET PATH=%PATH%;blah;blah2;blah3
will do the same thing as the previous, except it will leave any existing paths, such as c:\windows\command so you can still use "type filename |more" or "edit"