You are correct on the Path issue because Path just adds that path to the list of places to look at when runnin programs.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 11:40 G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2025, Norby Droid via Freedos-user wrote: > > > I was wonderin which would be better to use Alias or Path. > > > > Here is an example: > > I use FreeBasic and/or PowerBasic for my programming projects. > > > > I can either setup the path: > > Path=%Path%\Devel\PwrBas35\PB.exe > > or set up the alias: > > Alias PB=\Devel\PwrBas35\PB.exe > > > > But really, is one better than the other, or prefered over another. From > > my guess, alias may be a better solution, but others may have a different > > opinion. > > You really need to define "better", because the two things are rather > different. But there are two mistakes in your example "path" command, > so of your specific examples the alias is the better one because your > "path" command won't work at all. I'll let you re-read the docs and > maybe experiment a little to find out why. :) > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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