Hi Frederick,
On 14 Jun 96, 13:47, Frederick Sohn wrote to Auke Reitsma
 FS> Auke:
 FS>    One little caution, for those who are thinking of adding a
 FS> directory to their path "on the fly."  It's done by saving the
 FS> present path as, usually, "OLDPATH," and in some cases by also
 FS> saving an intermediate version as, say, "OPATH."  All well and
That OPATH/OLDPATH mixture was a severe error on my side ...
 FS> good, but it means taking up memory to hold the unused versions,
 FS> likely requiring that a larger environment size be specified
 FS> after the "e:" in the SHELL line in CONFIG.SYS.  If such a change
 FS> is to outlast the current session, it's preferable to edit the
 FS> PATH directly, and to "REM out" prior versions.
You are totally right in this. But changes to the PATH are also restricted to 
the current session. So there are problems anyway ...
Greetings from
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