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- This page displays information abot the environment space.
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- The environment space is used to hold information for programs to use. It
- is controlled by using the DOS command SET.
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- Some commonly used variables:
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- COMSPEC: This is the program that controls the DOS prompt. It is also used
- when you 'Shell to DOS' from programs.
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- PATH: These are the directories DOS will search when you type a command
- it doesn't internally know. It first searches the current
- directory, then all of the ones listed on the PATH. It tries each
- directory by looking for a file with a .COM, .EXE, or .BAT
- extention, in that order.
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- PROMPT: This is used to display the prompt.
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- TEMP: Used by many programs and DOS 5. Should point to a directory or,
- more commonly, a RAMDISK, and is used by programs for temporary
- storage.
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- Many programs use environment variables to hold information, such as
- where their startup files are, and startup commands. INFOPLUS supports an
- environment variable. If used, it contains the directory where INFOPLUS's
- INFOPLUS.HLP file is located. If the .HLP file is in the same directory as
- INFOPLUS.EXE, then you don't really need the environment variable.
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