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From: nebezene@ndsuvax.UUCP (Todd M. Bezenek KO0N)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.30 PATH and Environment lengths
Keywords: Please HELP: What's wrong with this picture?
Message-ID: <2811@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 07:09:20 GMT
References: <3695@i.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: nebezene@ndsuvax.UUCP (Todd M. Bezenek KO0N)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <3695@i.sei.cmu.edu> gjp@sei.cmu.edu (George Pandelios) writes:
>Greetings Netlanders!
>
>I'm having trouble setting my PATH to a length larger than an small 
>(127?) number of characters.

Try putting a "shell=..." into your config.sys.  This will start
a new shell (in your case DOS).  With this new DOS shell, you can
specify the environment size with the /e option.

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