Re: how does windows find java.exe?

On 26 Jun 2007 14:22:42 -0800, yf110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Malcolm
Dew-Jones) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths

but I don't think that is quite the same putting it on the path.

The registry entry makes them visible to the START command, as in

C:> START program-not-in-PATH-but-is-in-REGISTRY.exe


But if you simply type the name of a command as in

C:> PROGRAM.exe

then it must be either in the current directory or in a directory listed
in the PATH environment variable. (Though some entries in the registry do
control which directories are listed in each user's PATH variable.

IIRC I have added programs to the App Paths and then I can invoke them
with just xxxx on the command line in 4NT. Don't recall about
xxxx.exe.
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