You can change it by issuing "path ;" to clear it, then path "c:\; etc" to
set a new one.

It an environment setting, like %windir% & %temp% under Windows.  To access
the current path would depend in the language it's written it.  In a batch
file, "echo %path%" prints the current one.

To change it a crude way would be to shell out to DOS and run a batch file,
unless the language you're using has a better way to do it.  There's a
length limit (255 char?) too.

For #2, is it using SUBST?

Tony


> For a friend.
> I have no direct involvement with the following.
> Nobody is going to take your advice if you suggest buying new 
> windows aware applications software :-).
> 
> 1.    Dim memory assures me that MSDOS had (has) a data-path command 
> that would allow data to be referenced by filename without a path 
> specifier if it was anywhere on the data path. ie just as
> 
>         path C:\windows;c:\UTIL;C:\FOXPRO;C:\
> 
> allows programs anywhere in the directories on the path to be 
> accessed 
> by name the data equivalent allowed data to be accessed similarly.
> 
> Such a capability is extremely dangerous, and also sometimes useful.
> A friend wants top do something with an olllld DOS program that may 
> benefit from this feature.
> Anyone know how it is/was accessed?
> Gargle seems to know far too much about the terms 'data path' to be 
> easily driven to reveal anything useful.
> 
> 2.    Same problem but different maybe.
> 
> WIN98 on N PCs on LAN.
> 
> DOS program on PC A runs OK.
> Same program on PC B runs OK.

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