Advice Needed re: MS-DOS/Win 98 as Python environment

Mongryong Mongryong at sympatico.ca
Fri Jan 24 18:15:46 EST 2003


You should consider using Cygwin - unix emulator for windows.

Go to www.cygwin.com for more information.

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:06, zenguyuno at yahoo.com wrote:
> I generally run my python programs from a DOS window under Win 98.  Is
> there a better way?  (yeah, I know, use linux, but I feel I'm too old to
> relearn so much)
> 
> When I open MS-DOS the initial directory is Windows.  I can't figure out
> how to make this come up as Python22.  I know about autoexec.bat, I used
> to use it a lot, but I don't know where MS-DOS under Win 98 looks for
> the autoexec batch file to execute.  Can anyone please tell me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> z
> 
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