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Originally Posted by Statica
Well the path statement seems to be set right. It could be just an anomaly .. I really cannot explain why it didnt pick it. Have you tried rebooting and seeing if it works?
You could try specifically pointing to your windows and windows\system32 directory.
Go to Control Panel > System Properties > Advanced tab
Click the button for Environment variables. In the User variables section, do you see the variable PATH? If not follow this step:
Click New and add a new Variable: Path and variable value as C:\windows;C:\Windows\system32
Try rebooting.
If you do see a Path variable in the window, select it and click EDIT; now add a ; behind the existing value and add C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32
Reboot and see if it works.
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Well I did all you requested and found indeed that the Adabas previously mentioned in my postings had taken over path. I did not want it - so I removed that entry. Then I included the Windows path you gave me and rebooted. Yes this did the trick, it did not matter where in the directories of the DOS Windows I was - all the PING, TRACERT and other commands worked correctly.
Many thanks. And, oh by the way I will be posting in the next day or two in the correct section the difficulties I have been experiencing with my first go at using the Microsoft Internet Information Server in my studies to create a small database to go with my eventual website design. That will be a question for someone, so far following instructions to the letter is just no good I believe, there is something far more to all this and I have to learn it. So I will leave that for another day (possibly two!!)
http://localhost - works just like that.. they say---- I don't think so!!!
Again - many thanks Statica for all your help today.
---David
