A+ Study Guide: Command Line & OS Utilities

Displays, sets, or removes MS-DOS environment variables.

It is often used in the AUTOEXEC.BATor CONFIG.SYS files to set environment variables each time you start MS-DOS.

Syntax

SET variable = [string]

To display the current environment settings, use the following syntax:

SET

Examples

set path=c: \ windows \ command

This would set the path to c: \ windows \ command.