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Re: Euphoria on Windows XP

• Posted by George Orr <georgeorr at donet.com> Feb 13, 2002
• 488 views

Just wanted to thank Derek and Irv for their response to my question on 
setting environment variables in Windows XP.  Irv reference was very 
good.

I was actually trying to figure out how Rob's install program worked on 
Windows XP when he was using the autoexec.bat file to set the path and 
Euphoria environment variables.  I couldn't find that file anywhere....  
It turns out that autoexec.bat (as well as config.sys, msdos.sys, and 
io.sys) are actually hidden operating system files in the XP root 
directory.  The success of Rob's install program indicates that they are 
used by the Windows XP command processor, no matter what the Microsoft 
documentation says!  I wonder if Rob knew something, or just got lucky 
here?

There are advantages to using the XP properties approach to setting  
environment variables in that you do not have to reset the computer to 
have the changes take effect.  Using autoexec.bat (and presumably 
autoexec.nt) requires resetting the computer.

Thanks again Derek and Irv, for the help.