BL> The other thing that gives me the shits is the way that
 BL> programs rewrite the PATH statement and put themselves at the
 BL> head of the queue! You know... you have windows, DOS up
 BL> front... so they end up at the end of the queue and the time to
 BL> do a search quadruples!

 RM> Agreed. Many of those programs are just lazy, I've found. I can
 RM> usually take them out of the path, and write a batch file with
 RM> the same name in my UTILS dir, such as grunge.bat:

 RM> cd c:\apps\grunge
 RM> grunge.exe %1

  Thanks, Roy. Whatta good idea! My PATH is running into the 256-byte 
limit so it's come just in time.

Regards,
Bob

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