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"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:

>> > Windows system, it can have other names.Third, is it really a
>> > good idea to place other binaries in this special
>> directory that is suppose to contain only the OS binaries?
>
> It certainly isn't.  And putting "find" their will probably interfer
> with MS "find" as C:\Windows occurs earlier in PATH than MS find does.
> This may break some batch files.

I have put exe files in c:\winnt and c:\windows for many years without
any problems. But I don't put all things there, of course.