On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 andrey@utstat.toronto.edu wrote:
>
> 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?
You don't *need* S-PLUS in your path on any Windows version of S-PLUS I
have used. Indeed, I do not allow it as I have more one version in use at
any one time.
I finally removed my copy of 3.3 a couple of months ago. It's 7 years old
as I recall and although it did run under Windows 2000, it was remarkable
that it did. It was not in my path. I only ever used it to make ports of
library sections (e.g. MASS).
> I would also like to ask the same question for S-Plus version 4.3.
No such version, AFAIK, but 2000 and 6.0 do not need to be in the path.
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