Topic: Problem with the PATH environment variable (1 of 4), Read 28 times Conf: Installation, Configuration From: Peter Rejto Date: Friday, March 11, 2005 08:00 PM Hello, I am not sure that this is a Vedit issue. I thought, it is no harm to ask: I have updated to the new Vedit 6.13.1 version. My problem did not get solved. Here it is. Windows 2000 gives me the PATH environment variable as e:\texmf\miktex\bin. If I get into Vedit and use the {Misc, DOS shell, path} menu command I get an additional double quote, " , in the front. To get around this problem I have spelled out the entire path in (DOS) commands that I issue from Vedit. Like I use e:\texmf\miktex\bin\latex instead of latex. This seems to work, with the exception of Fritz's yap.vdm. I have another machine running Windows 2000. There I installed Vedit from scratch. There I do not have this problem. Can I just install another copy of Vedit into a Test directory and see what happens then? Thanks, -peter.

Topic: Re: Problem with the PATH environment variable (2 of 4), Read 29 times Conf: Installation, Configuration From: Ted Green Date: Friday, March 11, 2005 08:57 PM At 08:00 PM 3/11/2005, you wrote: >I am not sure that this is a Vedit issue. I thought, it is no harm to ask: >I have updated to the new Vedit 6.13.1 version. My problem did not get solved. > >Here it is. Windows 2000 gives me the PATH environment variable as e:\texmf\miktex\bin. > >If I get into Vedit and use the {Misc, DOS shell, path} >menu command I get an additional double quote, " , >in the front. This is not a VEDIT issue and therefore really shouldn't be discussed here. You can experiment from the DOS box with the "cmd" and "command" commands which actually "shell" again. Type "exit" to get to the previous shell level; when there are no more shell levels, it will close the DOS box. Ted. Ted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Green (ted@...) Greenview Data, Inc. Web: www.... Fax: 734-996-1308 PO Box 1586, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Tel: (734) 996-1300 Desk: 734-369-3550 VEDIT - Text/Data/Binary Editor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.SpamStopsHere.com ranked #1 in accuracy by Network Computing Magazine

Topic: Re: Problem with the PATH environment variable (3 of 4), Read 27 times Conf: Installation, Configuration From: Peter Rejto Date: Saturday, March 12, 2005 01:44 AM On 3/11/2005 8:57:01 PM, Ted Green wrote: >At 08:00 PM 3/11/2005, you >wrote: >>I am not sure that this is a Vedit issue. I thought, it is no harm to ask: >>I have updated to the new Vedit 6.13.1 version. My problem did not get solved. >> >>Here it is. Windows 2000 gives me the PATH environment variable as e:\texmf\miktex\bin. >> >>If I get into Vedit and use the {Misc, DOS shell, path} >>menu command I get an additional double quote, " , >>in the front. > >This is not a VEDIT issue and >therefore really shouldn't be >discussed here. > >You can experiment from the >DOS box with the "cmd" and >"command" commands which >actually "shell" again. Type >"exit" to get to the previous >shell level; when there are no >more shell levels, it will >close the DOS box. > >Ted. Thanks Ted, for your quick reply and for your suggestions. I have already done these experiments and I have no problems in the Windows 2000 DOS box. Thanks again, -peter.

Topic: Re: Problem with the PATH environment variable (4 of 4), Read 24 times Conf: Installation, Configuration From: Peter Rejto Date: Sunday, March 13, 2005 02:34 AM On 3/11/2005 8:57:01 PM, Ted Green wrote: >At 08:00 PM 3/11/2005, you >wrote: >>I am not sure that this is a Vedit issue. I thought, it is no harm to ask: >>I have updated to the new Vedit 6.13.1 version. My problem did not get solved. >> >>Here it is. Windows 2000 gives me the PATH environment variable as e:\texmf\miktex\bin. >> >>If I get into Vedit and use the {Misc, DOS shell, path} >>menu command I get an additional double quote, " , >>in the front. > >This is not a VEDIT issue and >therefore really shouldn't be >discussed here. > >You can experiment from the >DOS box with the "cmd" and >"command" commands which >actually "shell" again. Type >"exit" to get to the previous >shell level; when there are no >more shell levels, it will >close the DOS box. > >Ted. THANKS TED AGAIN! I did find the culprit. A third party program did write to my WINDOWS\SYSTEM32|AUTOEXEC.NT file. Specifically, it did put a SET PATH statement there and it did include the PATH in double quotes. After removing these double quotes, my {Misc, DOS Shell} Vedit menu command works like a charm! -peter