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- EDPATH Version 1.0
- DOS Path Editor
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- ─────────────────────────── Notice ──────────────────────────
-
- EDPATH is not for sale. You can copy it and distribute it
- freely, however you may not charge any fee. If you find
- EDPATH to be a useful utility and would like to see improved
- future versions your comments, sugestions, and contribution
- of $10.00 would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Alpha Soft
- 4205 N. Donald
- Bethany, OK 73008
- (405) 495-9351
-
- (c) Copyright 1990 Alpha Soft
-
- ────────────────────────── Purpose ──────────────────────────
-
- EDPATH allows you to quickly insert, append, edit or delete a
- directory from the DOS PATH found in the master environment.
-
- NOTE: EDPATH always makes changes to the master environment.
- This means that if you shell to DOS from some other program
- and use EDPATH to change the path, that change will not
- affect the path in the Shell environment. However when you
- exit the shell and the program, you will find the change will
- show up.
-
- Q: What is a PATH?
-
- A: A PATH is the search path that DOS uses to locate a
- command or program if it is not found in the current
- drive/directory. The PATH is normally set in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- When you start EDPATH it will separate each of the
- drive/directory combinations into a separate line and
- display a pick window of your path.
-
- ╒══[ EDPATH - Version 1.00 1.0 - (c) 1990 Alpha Soft ]═══╕
- │C:\ │
- │C:\DOS__________________________________________________▓
- │C:\QDOS ░
- │C:\TP ░
- │C:\TD │
- ╘══[ <─┘ Change │ Ins │ Del │ End │ ^<─┘ - Save │ Esc ]══╛
-
- The commands are as follows
-
- <─┘ Change - This command will allow you to edit the
- currently highlighted selection. When you press
- <─┘ or enter you will see the following screen.
-
- ╒═══════════════════[ Change Directory in Path ]═══════════════════╕
- │ │
- │ Directory : [C:\DOS____________________________________________] │
- │ │
- ╘═════════[ <─┘ - Continue Esc - Abort ]═════════╛
-
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- Ins - This command will allow you to insert a drive/directory
- BEFORE the currently highlighted one. To insert press
- the <Ins> key
-
- ╒═══════════════════[ Insert Directory in Path ]═══════════════════╕
- │ │
- │ Directory : [C:\ARC____________________________________________] │
- │ │
- ╘═════════[ <─┘ - Continue Esc - Abort ]═════════╛
-
- After inserting before C:\QDOS the path is now
-
- ╒══[ EDPATH - Version 1.00 1.0 - (c) 1990 Alpha Soft ]═══╕
- │C:\ │
- │C:\DOS ░
- │C:\ARC__________________________________________________▓
- │C:\QDOS ░
- │C:\TP ░
- │C:\TD │
- ╘══[ <─┘ Change │ Ins │ Del │ End │ ^<─┘ - Save │ Esc ]══╛
-
-
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- End - This command will append a drive/directory to the end
- of the current path. To append press <End>
-
- ╒═══════════════════[ Append Directory in Path ]═══════════════════╕
- │ │
- │ Directory : [C:\UTILS__________________________________________] │
- │ │
- ╘═════════[ <─┘ - Continue Esc - Abort ]═════════╛
-
-
- Del - This command will delete the curently highlighted drive
- /directory. Use with caution because it will not
- verify that you really want to delete it. To delete
- press the <Del> key.
-
-
- ╒══[ EDPATH - Version 1.00 1.0 - (c) 1990 Alpha Soft ]═══╕
- │C:\ │
- │C:\DOS ░
- │C:\QDOS_________________________________________________▓
- │C:\TP ░
- │C:\TD ░
- │C:\UTILS │
- ╘══[ <─┘ Change │ Ins │ Del │ End │ ^<─┘ - Save │ Esc ]══╛
-
- Here we deleted the drive/directory C:\ARC by pressing <Del>
- while C:\ARC was highlighted.
-
- ^<─┘- This command will save the changes you have made to the
- DOS environment. The ^ symbol stands for Ctrl,
- therefore to do this command press and hold the Ctrl
- key while pressing the <─┘ or enter key.
-
-
- EDPATH Version 1.00 (c) 1990 Alpha Soft
- New path : C:\;C:\DOS;C:\QDOS;C:\TP;C:\TD;C:\UTILS;
-
- After pressing Ctrl-Enter to save and exit, we see that
- the path was changed.
-
- Esc - This command will exit without saving the changes you
- have made to the DOS path. To exit without saving
- press the <Esc> key.
-
- EDPATH Version 1.00 (c) 1990 Alpha Soft
- No change to path was made
-
- When we exit with <Esc> no changes are made.
-
- ─────────────────────────── Notes ───────────────────────────
-
- Some future revisions may include the following...
-
- Command line switches to allow EDPATH to change the path
- without user intervention - from .BAT files for example.
-
- Command line switches to allow EDPATH to edit the Parent
- Environment when shelling to DOS from another program.
-
- EDPATH would automatically detect when it is in a shelled DOS
- environment and ask user if they want to modify the Parent
- environment, Master environment or both.
-
- EDPATH could alter the PATH statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file as well as the DOS environment.
-
- Let us know which of these you would like to see, as well as
- any other ideas that you have.
-
-
- ──────────────────── Version 1.01 Update ────────────────────
-
- EDPATH now supports the following command line switches
-
- /? - Command help
- /F - Force Mono Attributes
- /A D:\PATH - Append D:\PATH to DOS Path
- /D D:\PATH - Delete D:\PATH from DOS Path
- /M Modify Master Environment path
- /P Modify Shell Environment path
- /B Modify Master path and save to both
-
- EDPATH now automatically detects when it is being run from a
- DOS Shell. When it does, it will ask you which path you
- would like to see, the Master path or the Shell path. When
- you exit and save, EDPATH will ask you which environment you
- want to save the changes to.
-
- Watch for version 1.02...Certain to optionally alter the path
- statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- ──────────────────── Version 1.02 Update ────────────────────
-
- Sorry Folks, This version does not alter AUTOEXEC.BAT yet.
- It's only purpose is to fix a bug with Version 1.01. The bug
- was that if you appended a path with the command line option
- /A the program did not add a semicolon to the last directory
- in the path before appending.
-
- We also added error checking for path names added. If you
- attempt to add an invalid path name, EDPATH will warn you.
- The one side effect of this is that should you want to add a
- floppy drive A: or B: to the path, you should make sure a
- formatted floppy is in the drive.
-
- We have also discovered that some programs save and restore
- the shell environment each time you enter and exit the shell.
- Thus they overwrite the shell environment path you altered
- with EDPATH.
-
- ──────────────────── Version 1.03 Update ────────────────────
-
- EDPATH will now optionally alter your AUTOEXEC.BAT or any
- other text file that contains a line that begins with PATH=.
- For safey's sake EDPATH will not add a line PATH= to a file
- that doesn't already have one.
-
- EDPATH will now also check to see if you attempt to append a
- path that already exists in the PATH using the /A option.
- The reason for this was that if you used EDPATH in a batch
- file to append a path and you didn't remove it before running
- the batch file again. EDPATH would append it over and over
- again.
-
- ──────────────────── Version 1.04 Update ────────────────────
-
- This version corrects bugs with saving the path statement to
- AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- ──────────────────── Version 1.05 Update ────────────────────
-
- EDPATH will now expand a path name based on the current
- directory. For example, suppose you are in a directory named
-
- C:\UTILS\DOSUTILS
-
- and you type EDPATH /a pathutil
-
- EDPATH will append a directory named
-
- C:\UTILS\DOSUTILS\PATHUTIL
-
- ──────────────────── Version 1.06 Update ────────────────────
-
- EDPATH now uses DOS pathname parsing routines to determine
- the expanded path name. This means that EDPATH will
- correctly interpret pathnames that include ".." and "."
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