Editing Enviroment Variables and paths

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D.M.Jackson

Greetings,

I am trying to edit the path on a winxp pro machine and even though it shows
that I have successfully added a path in the dialog under "path" in both
system and user areas, I still cannot get windows to recognize this from the
command line. What next?

Also, I have a number of utilities that are meant to run from the command
line. To install them I am supposed to place them in a directory on the
executable path. This is what their installation instructions tell me to
do. I have no idea what that means. Could someone please explain to me
what this path business is all about and why I can not change my enviroment
variable successfully...even though my updates do show in the enviroments
dialog.

I have looked around online and most of the information that I can find
about these things is not very clear. Could anyone point me to a good basic
reference about working with enviroment variables and commandline
arguments...for noobies?


TIA,
Mark
 
Well, I have managed to solve my problem on my own. But for future
reference, is this just the wrong place to ask questions like this? I mean
judging by the multitude of replies, I wonder if this message even made it
to the Microsoft newsgroup or if I'm just talking to myself here.

Mark
 
Well, it's a shame that nobody replied to your message (I'm having the
same problem on a different list), but perhaps you could share what you
did to solve your problem. That way, others could benefit from your
experience and this wouldn't be a wasted topic.
 
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