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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>         Problem -- if the OP's PATH had contained the location of the add2path
> script, the OP might not have needed to search for it... (presuming their
> configuration also was set up to treat .py files as executable, entering
> win_add2path would be all that was needed to run it on a command line)

Ulli didn't need to run the file, but to read it as example code.

>         "where" only searches the locations defined in PATH

I made it clear in several examples that where.exe is not limited to
searching PATH.