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In article <1991Jun6.134652.10820@intvax2.cs.sandia.gov> drstrip@intvax2.cs.sandia.gov (David R. Strip) writes:
>I have some less than robust software that assumes my directory
>structure looks a certain way, which is doesn't. I need a 
>utility like SUBST or ASSIGN, but that works for paths. eg,
>I would like to be able to say
>foo textfms -> /tex/tfms/pktfm
> and have the effect that when this stupid program tries to
> get textfms/cmr10.tfm the os will actually look for 
> /tex/tfms/pktfm/cmr10.tfm

A roundabout way of doing this would be to use the 4DOS alternate command
processor instead of using COMMAND.COM.  With 4DOS, environment variables
are active almost anywhere you can imagine.  So, you can define the variable
of "textfms" to be equal to "\tex\tfms\pktfm" and if you say "dir %textfms"
it will give you a directory listing of \tex\tfms\pktfm.
 


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