Special Edition Using MS-DOS® 6.22, Third Edition

Chapter 11. Controlling Your Environment

In this chapter

• Changing DOS Variables

• Changing the User Interface

• Changing Disk Drives

Changing DOS Variables

The SET command enables you to adjust the DOS environment by changing the variables that are available to programs running under DOS. This command shows the current settings in the environment, or you can use the command to add or change environment variables.

Issuing the SET Command

The syntax for the SET command is as follows:

SET name=string

The variable name= is the name of the environment variable. The most frequently used environment variables are COMSPEC, PROMPT, and PATH. You can choose your own variable names in addition to these three, however. Many of the programs that you might use set their ...