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In article <2467@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
> Path is braindead.

Expand on this. I don't have any problems with it.

> One day I will write an ARexx front-end for it so that I can
> delete one entry in the path, or insert an entry, without having to muck about
> doing things to it manually.

PATH directory REMOVE
PATH directory ADD

How automatic would you like to get?

Here's my PATH:

1.SYS> PATH
Current directory
Ram Disk:
System2.0:C
System2.0:Utilities
System2.0:Rexxc
System2.0:System
System2.0:S
System2.0:Prefs
System2.0:Wbstartup
System2.0:Tools
Work:c
Work:System
Work:uucp/c
Work:Aztec/Bin
C:

Do you really have ALL that junk in C:? Sigh...
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

In article <7460@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <2467@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>> Path is braindead.
>
>Expand on this. I don't have any problems with it.
>
>> One day I will write an ARexx front-end for it so that I can
>> delete one entry in the path, or insert an entry, without having to muck about
>> doing things to it manually.
>
>PATH directory REMOVE
>PATH directory ADD
>
>How automatic would you like to get?
>
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'

	Using PATH ADD will add a directory to the end of your path- what if
you want to change something in the MIDDLE?  You have to reset the whole darn
thing.

	As far as ARP goes, the Commode (sic) commands were out of my C 
directory within hours of my machine's setup.  Never had a problem with them.


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In article <418@tronsbox.xei.com> dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) writes:
> 	Using PATH ADD will add a directory to the end of your path- what if
> you want to change something in the MIDDLE?  You have to reset the whole darn
> thing.

I think this goes in the category of "getting too cute with your setup". I've
got a pretty hairy PATH and I've never even considered that it might be nice
to have that capability. What would you need to do that for (real life examples,
please, not hypotheticals...)?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

In article <7460@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>PATH directory REMOVE
>PATH directory ADD
>How automatic would you like to get?

	In another message, Peter requested a "real life" example where
these commands are not sufficient.  Here's one that I have encountered
several times.  There is no convenient way to add a directory the end of
your search path.  You have to RESET and ADD everything back.

	On UNIX it's simple:

		$ PATH=$PATH:newdirectory

Maybe we'll never see "PATH directory INSERT", but I'd sure like to have
"PATH directory APPEND".

                                                        Dan

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In <7471@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <418@tronsbox.xei.com> dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) writes:
>> 	Using PATH ADD will add a directory to the end of your path- what if
>> you want to change something in the MIDDLE?  You have to reset the whole darn
>> thing.

Well, not even Unix allows that, short of using tools like 'sed' and such.
At least, however, it allows adding to either the end or the front of the PATH.

>I think this goes in the category of "getting too cute with your setup". I've
>got a pretty hairy PATH and I've never even considered that it might be nice
>to have that capability. What would you need to do that for (real life examples,
>please, not hypotheticals...)?
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

One such example is when you have some commands with the same name has the
Commodore supplied one, and want your own before in the PATH.  However, it's
true that you usually do that in the startup-sequence.  It would be nice
to be able to add either to the end or front (I know, I'm repeating myself).

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