[h-e-w] Re: How to tell (windows) emacs which ftp.exe, ediff.exe, grep.exe... files to use

[Galen Boyer]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, address@hidden wrote:
> Good afternoon, Would someone know and could please tell me, how
> to tell emacs where to find the ftp.exe, ediff.exe, grep.exe
> executables it needs to use to access remote files, execute diffs or
> grep commands?  I have all these executables on my PC either in
> the directory C:\Program Files\emacs-20.7\bin or in
> C:\cygwin\bin. Is there an emacs variable I need to set in my
> .emacs file? 

Do you understand the concept of an OS path, but you would like to know
how to do this exclusively in Emacs, or do you not understand PATH and
really just want that this is enabled?  (The explanation for these two
would be different)

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Galen deForest Boyer
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