Install bug?

Question

Just to preface ... it's kind of difficult to describe this as a Forte
bug, but after the install, it was noticed that the system's global path
was modified. Specifically
"c:\forte\install\bin;c:\forte\objectivity\bin" was appended. One would
think that would be fine, but what was observed, is that when launching
a command shell (cmd.exe), system variables used to set the path were
not being expanded. Again, specifically, the
"%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;" was not being expanded to
"c:\winnt\system32;c:\winnt;". As you can guess, there were a few
programs that weren't being found. Now one peculiar oberservation
however ... using "Run ..." under the Start menu did seem to be able to
interpret the path correctly. It was only a probem when you launched a
instance of "cmd.exe". (Makes me wonder if there isn't a problem with
the command shell.) Anyway, the fix seems to be pretty simple. It
appears that the path variable needs to be terminated with a trailing
";". After adding that things seemed to be expanding properly.
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Answer 1

Greg,
what you just found is Forte Bug 31605. (I wonder when they are goinig
to actually fix it.) The Workaround is quite easy. Just go into Control
Panel - System - Environment. You don't have to change anything. Just
click into PATH definition and save it again. The next time you open a
cmd.exe it will again resolve PATH correctly.
Uli
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Gorham [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 5:07 PM
To: forte-users
Subject: install bug?
Just to preface ... it's kind of difficult to describe this as a Forte
bug, but after the install, it was noticed that the system's global
path
was modified. Specifically
"c:\forte\install\bin;c:\forte\objectivity\bin" was appended. One
would
think that would be fine, but what was observed, is that when
launching
a command shell (cmd.exe), system variables used to set the path were
not being expanded. Again, specifically, the
"%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;" was not being expanded to
"c:\winnt\system32;c:\winnt;". As you can guess, there were a few
programs that weren't being found. Now one peculiar oberservation
however ... using "Run ..." under the Start menu did seem to be able
to
interpret the path correctly. It was only a probem when you launched
a
instance of "cmd.exe". (Makes me wonder if there isn't a problem with
the command shell.) Anyway, the fix seems to be pretty simple. It
appears that the path variable needs to be terminated with a trailing
";". After adding that things seemed to be expanding properly.
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