Microsoft DOS append command
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Similar to the PATH MS-DOS command, the append command enables a user to open files in the specified directory as if they were in the current directory.
Append.exe is an external command available in the below versions of Microsoft operating systems.
MS-DOS 3.2x - 6.2x
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP
APPEND Drive: \Path /X /E Path:on or off
| Drive: | The drive letter to be searched. |
| \Path | The path to be searched. |
| /X :on or :off | Extends the DOS search path for specified files when executing programs. Processes SEARCH FIRST, FIND FIRST and EXEC functions. The :ON and :OFF are new to version MS-DOS 5.0, |
| /Path :on or :off | If path is already included for a program file, :on tells program to also search in appended directories. Default= :on. Note: The default value of = :on was added in MS-DOS 5.0 and above |
| /E | Causes the appended path to be stored in the DOS environment and searched for there. |
| ; | Use ";" to separate multiple Drive:\path statements on one line. |
Note: You can not use any paths on the same command line as /X & /E. The :ON and :OFF options are only available in MS-DOS 5.0 and later. Do not append within a Windows environment. The append command can be used on a network. Invalid drive specifications will not be detected until DOS attempts to use the search path to find specified files.
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Using append alone will display the current search path.
append c:\docs;c:\letters;c:\files
Sets the computer to look for files in the docs, letters and files directory, therefore when typing a command such as "edit myfile.txt" if the file is not present in the current directory the computer would also look for the file in docs, letters and files directory.