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Windows Path

03.06.2007

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        Stolen From: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Reflector5ReleasedWorldDominationAssured.aspx
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:54:50 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

You mention that reflector should be in your path. That gives me an opportunity to exploit a (ruby) gem I created a few weeks ago which makes managing your path a breeze. Instead of going to My Computer | Properties | Blah blah and adding the path entry using that terrible dialog, just follow these steps:

gem install patheditor
path_editor --add c:\path\to\reflectore

Adding items to the Windows Path is so painful, I created this utility to make it a little easier for everyone.

It uses a WSH object to update your USER path setting, and the change will be permanent - current and future command prompts will see the new path. Unfortunately, slickrun does not respect path updates so you'll have to kill it and restart if you launch prompts from there ...
Justin

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Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:25:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
@Jon

Updating path that way (Set PATH=) only affects your current command prompt. My script uses WSH objects to propagate the change to all running processes (that respect the update), and future prompts will include the new path.

The script will also not add duplicate entries, and it can even clean duplicate/non-existent directories out of your current path.
Justin

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