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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: setting the environment with long value strings...
Message-ID: <5190043@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 89 19:51:20 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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> I am looking for a simple way to set the environment variables in
> the command processor (COMMAND.COM) when their values are > 128
> characters in length. For example I have a PATH string 

  If the only long variable you have is the PATH variable you need a freebb
utility called ADDPATH which simply adds to the path variable whatever you
give it.  My autoexec.bat has an entry like:

PATH=C:\;nextdir;nextdir;
ADDPATH \UTIL\NORTON
ADDPATH \UTIL\PCKWIK
ADDPATH \etc...
.
.
It seems to work just fine.  There is an accompanying utility called DELPATH
which, you guessed it, removes paths from the PATH var.

Hope this helps,

Ken