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- EE2.COM
- ENVIRONMENT EDITOR
-
- Two years ago in the spring of 1985 I wrote the original EE.COM
- which was a full screen editor for the environment area. I was
- recently asked to revive it and update it for DOS 3.x. The orginal
- used a sort of klutzy way of finding the environment and I have tried
- to improve on that for this edition. I have also made provisions to
- edit lines longer than 80 bytes. The rest of the program is vintage
- code from 1985. I have recently seen programs which use .BAT files
- to update the environment. EE2 is the real thing. This does it direct.
-
- What is the environment? Its an area reserved by DOS to keep
- important information such as the PATH and the COMSPEC and a bunch
- of other stuff that you skipped over in the DOS manual. It is a
- pain in the neck to temporarily add a path or to change the spelling
- in a path you spelled wrong. You may want to change some environment
- type "SET" stuff that a progam needs. DOS keeps a master copy of the
- environment down near its heart which it clones for you. This program
- attempts to find the master copy. After you change the master, DOS
- will clone the changed environment in the future. If you have used
- a "RUN" or "SYSTEM" or "SHELL" type command, you have involked a
- second COMMAND.COM with its own cloned copy of the Environment. If you
- change the master copy, the second command processor still has the
- clone copy and doesn't know about the changes. This will expalin
- why sometimes EE2.COM does not appear to work right away. This is
- all very "Techie" and I don't know all the in's and outs of the
- environment. The thing works for me.
- I always thought this was a neat program, but it never got around.
- Perhaps my strong warning against messing with the environment
- scared people off. This version is pretty benign, despite the
- warning. I have not gotten it to crash yet, but I have not been
- trying too hard. Please report any problems.
-
- Keith P. Graham
- 238 Germonds Road
- W. Nyack, NY 10994
-