JdBP>> The environment information is part of the program object
JdBP>> itself, and  not necessarily attached to any one executable.
JdBP>> You can, after all,  *change* which executable is invoked when
JdBP>> the object is opened by  altering the program name field in
the JdBP>> first page.  As such, the

PF> Good point -- I didn't think it through far enough 
PF> (and had, earier in
PF> the day,  spent 30mins cleaning out wps os2.ini turds ).

 jl> I thought that your original intention was to set PATH 
 jl> and LIBPATH for a specific program executable, not for 
 jl> a program object.

That's right -- and JdBP's point is that you way want to start the same exe
from more than one desktop object,  with different settings.

Placing the settings in an EA would be a LOT better than what we have now
though  -- and if you've already programmed this I'll take a copy now!


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