You can
only use this command line switch the first time you execute
Append
within a particular command
line window. However, other command line windows aren??™t affected by this command
line switch; the
APPEND
environment variable only exists within the command line window in
which you executed the Append utility and only for the time the command line window is open.
Executing Append with just a semicolon clears all of the appended paths for a particular directory.
Running Append by itself lists the appended paths for a particular directory.
NOTE
Windows XP and above ignores the results of the Append utility. Microsoft supplies the
Append
command in these versions of Windows for DOS batch file compatibility. When the
appended directory feature is important, store the appended directories in the
APPEND
environment
variable using the
/E
command line switch and then use the environment variable to
search for files in other directories. As an alternative, you can employ data redirection (see the
???Employing Data Redirection??? section Chapter 14 for details). The Subst utility can also help by
assigning long paths to a drive letter.
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