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- From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Help installing READIBM.EXE
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:29:28 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <sal8.181.722284168@po.cwru.edu>
- References: <1992Nov19.235524.2566@gremlin.muug.mb.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov19.235524.2566@gremlin.muug.mb.ca> borger@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (James Borger) writes:
- >From: borger@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (James Borger)
- >Subject: Help installing READIBM.EXE
- >Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:55:24 GMT
- >
- >I'm having a very very hard time with the PDK CD ROM I ordered from IBM.
- >
- >I don't have a CD ROM drive so I have to keep running to a DOS machine
- >that has one and copying the files over! ARGH! I'm trying to get the
- >READIBM.EXE program going but every time I launch it says there aren't
- >BOOKS and BOOKSHELVES paths in config.sys, so I added them, rebooted and
- >it still gives the same error! What do I have to do to install this
- >thing? I got the DOS version running, at least that one has enough sense
- >to let you into the program so you can enter your own path!!!!
-
- Don't know for sure on this one. Extended attributes maybe?
-
- >
- >Also, how on earth do I add paths to the DOS emulation windows? I see it
- >has a few remnents of my old DOS path but I can't figure where to add the
- >rest! I've been all over the online help and nowhere can I see where it
- >says to edit the PATH statement used in DOS emulation!
-
- Try that SET PATH= statement in your autoexec.bat. Remember, the stuff in
- there is _only_ used by the emulated DOS sessions. OS/2 doesn't look at it
- for OS/2 windows.
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