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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.30 PATH and Environment lengths
Message-ID: <588.24D0C062@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 28 Jul 89 07:15:07 GMT
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In article <2811@ndsuvax.UUCP>, nebezene@ndsuvax.UUCP (Todd M. Bezenek KO0N) writes:
 >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.

Unfortunately, this won't help.  It is impossible to set an environment
variable longer than the DOS command-line length without some fairly
extensive work-arounds.  Since 127 characters is the longest command
line you can enter (this holds true for batch files, too), you can't
set a path longer than 127 characters.  I think you'll have to use
SUBST.

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