From: dkmd_nielsen <donn@...>
Date: 2008-11-13T06:22:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Need tutoring on using a path environment variable

Let's provide more information.  The contents of pw_path include this:

C:\PW\firstprep;C:\PW\rapid\docs;C:\PW\la;C:\PW\rapid;c:\pw\pst;

And the application I want to execute is presort.exe, which is located
in c:\pw\pst;

I would like to be able to tell the O/S you have to look in the above
folders to find presort.exe, just as you would using PATH.  In a
sense, I would like to temporarily merge the contents of pw_path into
the search path of PATH.

Is that better?
dvn


dkmd_nielsen wrote:
> I don't know what to do.  I have an environment variable, PW_PATH,
> that contains the folder names where applications can be executed
> from.  I want to start a particular application that is in one of
> those folders.  I currently use the following:
>
>       system("presort /a /nos /watch #{template[0]}")	# submit the
> presort to run
>
> This works when the contents of PW_PATH are added to the PATH
> variable.  But I would like to avoid that if I can.  I guess my
> questions are:  How do I first acquire the contents of PW_PATH?  How
> do employ the contents as a temporary addition to PATH so that system
> can submit the application and it will be found and executed?
>
> Suggestions?  Comments?  Observations?  All are appreciated.
>
> dvn