Q45051: Set Paths Menu in QB 4.50 Finds $INCLUDE and Library Files

Article: Q45051
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 4.50
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S890523-116 B_BasicCom | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 27-DEC-1989

The Set Paths menu item in the Options menu is a feature new to the
QuickBASIC Version 4.50 environment. (Earlier versions of the
QuickBASIC editor do not have an Options menu or a Set Paths option.)
QBX.EXE for Microsoft BASIC PDS Version 7.00 also has this feature.

The Set Paths option lets you establish the search path that the
QB.EXE environment will use for finding executable (.EXE, .COM) files,
$INCLUDE files, library files (.LIB, .QLB), and the help file (.HLP).
The search paths specified in Set Paths work in addition to any paths
that were SET with MS-DOS environment variables (such as SET PATH=,
SET INCLUDE=, and SET LIB=).

Note that QuickBASIC Versions 1.00, 1.01, 1.02, 2.00, 2.01, 3.00,
4.00, and 4.00b for MS-DOS and Microsoft BASIC Compiler Versions 6.00
and 6.00b for MS-DOS do NOT support the MS-DOS SET INCLUDE search path
(for QB.EXE or BC.EXE). The support for SET INCLUDE is added for
QuickBASIC Version 4.50 and BASIC PDS 7.00.

More information about the Set Paths menu is on Pages 220-221 and
271-272 of the "Microsoft QuickBASIC: Learning to Use" manual for
QuickBASIC Version 4.50.

The SET command in MS-DOS can also specify a subdirectory path with
the INCLUDE environment variable to search for $INCLUDE files. Both
QB.EXE and BC.EXE (in QuickBASIC Versions 4.00, 4.00b, and 4.50 and in
BASIC PDS 7.00) find $INCLUDE files along the path specified by the
INCLUDE environment variable.

The following is an example of the MS-DOS SET command that specifies
the INCLUDE file path. It can be invoked in an AUTOEXEC.BAT batch file
or typed at the DOS prompt.

   SET INCLUDE=D:\QB45\INCLUDE

The Set Paths menu item is an additional method for finding $INCLUDE
files when compiling in the QB.EXE Version 4.50 environment and in the
QBX.EXE Version 7.00 environment.

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