dos 1.0

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 18:04:00 2003

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Frank McConnell wrote:
> Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> wrote:
> > 3.xx added support for path in executution (you could run a program that
> > was in a different directory than the one that you were in)
>
> Typo? I remember MS-DOS 2.11? on the HP150A in 1983 supporting a
> PATH environment variable which COMMAND.COM would use to search for
> executable programs.

No, I wasn't clear what I meant.
If you are in the \SUB1 directory, in DOS 2.xx, and you wanted to run WS
from the WORDSTAR directory, you had to either have \WORDSTAR listed in
your PATH command (environment variable), or do CD \WORDSTAR and THEN type
WS.
Starting with 3.00, you could type \WORDSTAR\WS to run it.
(2.xx did not permit a subdirectory path as part of the command portion of
the command line)
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 18:04:00 BST