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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: update: re: pathlength, environment space
Summary: enough already...  it's documented, but not WELL documented
Message-ID: <2236@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 02:40:48 GMT
References: <1072@neptune.AMD.COM> <2183@infmx.UUCP> <24943@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <2208@infmx.UUCP> <13652@kean.mun.ca>
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
Organization: INFORMIX Professional Services ("Peace thru Normalization")
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In article <13652@kean.mun.ca> noelroy@kean.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University) writes:
>Ahem again.
>Try Xenith's MS-DOS Version 3.3+ User's Guide and Command Reference, 
>p. 1.30.
> Dr. Noel Roy                                                          |

(aside: if you're going to flame me, at least spell the vendor right!
    p.s.:  does anybody ever call you "Dr. No" for short?  :-])

True enough, it is there.  I missed it the first time because I was
looking for two pathnames, e.g. the typical
   SHELL=[d][path]command.com [d][path] ...

but on this page, it just says
   COMMAND [d][path] ...

anyway, I will offer in my defense that the section on SHELL mentions
nothing of this.  Also, I'd still like for one of the 4 or so people
who insist that it's in the PC-DOS 3.X manuals point it out to me...

Thanks also to Tom Thackrey (amdahl!tat00) who also pointed this out to
me, without the flame.

--
    Alan S. Denney  @  Informix Software, Inc.    
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