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- Command: APPEND Type: DOS external command
-
- Purpose: Sets a search path for data files.
-
- Syntax: First use only:
- append [/x][/e]
-
- To specify directories to be searched:
- append [drive:]path [;[drive:][path]...]
-
- To delete appended paths:
- append;
-
- Comments: The append command allows you to specify a search path for data
- files.
-
- The append command accepts switches only the first time the
- command is invoked.
-
- Switches: /x Extends the search path for data files. DOS first searches
- the current directory for data files. If DOS doesn't find the
- needed data there, it searches the first directory in the
- append search path. If the files are still not found, DOS
- continues to the second appended directory, and so on. DOS
- will not search subsequent directories once the data files
- are found.
-
- /e Causes appended directories to be stored in the DOS
- environment.