FW: Installing S-Plus version 3.3 in Windows Millenium.

["Mark E. Hall" <markhall@gol.com>]

> 
> 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.

Have you tried installing it directly from the disks and just creating a
new directory outside of the PROGRAM FILES folder?  That is what I did
and it works fine on my WindowsME machine.  

Best, Mark Hall