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to: Tom Brown
from: Gerard Gerritsen
date: 1996-05-30 19:42:04
subject: profile

Hello Tom!

Tuesday May 28 1996, Tom Brown writes to Andrew Grillet:

 TB> startup.  This makes it difficult to design an install procedure that
 TB> puts an environment variable definition into the CONFIG.SYS, that
 TB> doesn't want to reboot the machine.  I've tried calling my applications
 TB> from batch files which contain the environment variable definitions,
 TB> but this makes it inconvenient to change the location of an
 TB> application, because you have to hunt down a batch file that was stuck
 TB> somewhere in the path.

Or write some REXX code that will lookup the contents of a particular line
in config.sys if the corrosponding environment variable does not exist.

==> Gerard/2   - member of team os/2 -  1000521{at}ibk.fnt.hvu.nl

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