Hello!
To recover from an equipment failure, I need to install my Windows-95 based
S-Plus version 3.3 software onto a PC laptop running Windows Millenium
(which is similar to Windows 2000). Doing so directly does not install
reliably. As best as I can make out, the reason for this is that Windows
Millenium has its AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the directory C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EBD
and not in the root directory C:\ so that the path command does not get
updated from
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
to
SET PATH=C:\SPLUSWIN\CMD;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.
The Windows Millenium AUTOEXEC.BAT file has a line in it which reads
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.
Is it safe to update this line to read
PATH=C:\SPLUSWIN\CMD;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
and does anyone know whether this will allow S-Plus 3.3 to run reliably?
I would also like to ask the same question for S-Plus version 4.3.
Please reply by e-mailing directly to: andrey@utstat.toronto.edu
With thanks in advance,
Andrey Feuerverger / Dept Statistics / U of Toronto
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