David,
here's a way to do it, can be placed in a lisp that is loaded at start...
(setenv "ACAD" (strcat (getenv "ACAD") ";" "r:\herecomesthepath"))
if you want more info post at customization
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Best regards: Jimmy B
CAD coordinator at Emtunga International AB
http://hem.fyristorg.com/cadman/
www.emtunga.com
"David Patnaude" wrote in message news:8F84560A8dmpziplink@167.216.240.240...
> I am trying to setup AutoCAD 2000i on our system of 25 cadd users. I would
> like to be able to add some entries to the support paths for the users home
> directory and the pc3 files that will be stored on the network.
>
> How can I do this without going to every station and running the chance
> that the users will later change the settings?
>
> What I can see doing do far from the AutoCAD help would be to manually add
> entries to each support path with a DOS environment variable. As an example
> I could set a environment variable called JobDir and then in the Project
> Path add the entry %JobDir% to use this path when AutoCAD starts. This
> would mean going to every station though to add these environment
> variables.
>
> Are there already equivalent AutoCAD environment variables that can be set
> before acad starts? Do the old acad=, acaddrv=, acadcfg= still work like
> acad12?
>
> Is there a better way for creating a consistent network setup?
>
> --
> David Patnaude, MCSE, MCP+I
> dpatnaude@tamsconsultants.com