* gdb.texinfo (Environment): Document that `path' does not change

the value of PATH in GDB's own environment (it did in the past,
	but that was changed on March 15, 1994).  Reported by Doug Evans
	<dje@transmeta.com>.
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Eli Zaretskii 2001-02-11 13:37:32 +00:00
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2001-02-11 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
* gdb.texinfo (Environment): Document that `path' does not change
the value of PATH in GDB's own environment (it did in the past,
but that was changed on March 15, 1994). Reported by Doug Evans
<dje@transmeta.com>.
* gdbint.texinfo: Fix up @itemize lists so that @item is alone on
its line. Fix markup of commands and macros. Add an Index node
and index entries.

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@kindex path
@item path @var{directory}
Add @var{directory} to the front of the @code{PATH} environment variable
(the search path for executables), for both @value{GDBN} and your program.
(the search path for executables) that will be passed to your program.
The value of @code{PATH} used by @value{GDBN} does not change.
You may specify several directory names, separated by whitespace or by a
system-dependent separator character (@samp{:} on Unix, @samp{;} on
MS-DOS and MS-Windows). If @var{directory} is already in the path, it