Hi Klaus,
(Sunday April 26 1998 10:58) Klaus Meinhard to Claus Mueller about: EXECUTION 
PREFERENCE
 CM>> and the winner since dos 2.11 is:
 CM>> COM  (yeahhhh)
 CM>> followed by exe followed by bat folluwed by btm
 KM> I would not have believed this without running a few quick tests, but 
ou
 KM> are right, of course: COM EXE BTM BAT is the order of execution. So your
 KM> batch (belfry, Gotham) directory should be very early in your path...
path 
c:\bat;..;c:\ut;c:\nu;c:\arc;c:\sb;c:\mm;c:\gr;c:\mouse;c:\dos;e:\wads\ut;
d:\px;d:\snd;d:\midi;d:\mod;c:\windows;c:\bc\bin
This says it all, huh? BAT first, then current dir, then utils, then Norton 
Utils/Commander, and then the rest with Windows as one of the last... ;-)
Works like a CHARM! :-)
GreetZ,
  Ted Menks   Fido  : 2:2449/236.51 / 2:284/412.51
  PGPkeyID: 2048/1B2ACCED  1997/10/03 (available by RRQ)
... If at first you don't succeed, have somebody else do it for you!
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