Blue Knight Sojourn of the Mind

Well as part of using a new laptop at work I decided not to transfer it to Linux and be against policy so instead I will run Linux/Gentoo in VmWare or VirtualBox depending on what I like better that week

I need to customize the Windows System and as part of it is including linux based commands that have been ported in to windows. The problem with command line tools in Windows is that they are not found so easily once you install them somewhere on disk.  Since Windows XP puts everything in C:\Program Files I decided that I would do that as well and add the programs to Program Files.

I created a directory under C: Drive called “usr_bin”  which being a Linux/Unix person makes a lot of sense.  Then I just copy the command line components from all the programs I have in the Program Files in to C:\usr_bin so that I can activate them via command line.

There is one more thing you have to do.  Go to   Control Panel, then to System. Once you have the window from System pop up you can go to the Advanced  tab and then on the bottom of the tab you can click on Environmental Variables.  A new window will pop-up and you can go to the System Variables portion of it and click on Path and then on Edit.  This will pop out a window where you can edit your Path. Here I just add ;C:\usr_bin  save and either reboot or log out and log back in to Windows.

That is it! The Path Variable is now working for you.

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