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From: cjveenm@cs.vu.nl (Veenman CJ)
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Subject: Re: Path extension above 128 characters
Keywords: Path extension
Message-ID: <5986@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 15 Mar 90 11:03:17 GMT
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Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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In article <1941@v7fs1.UUCP> sv@v7fs1.UUCP (Steve Verity) writes:
>
>I want to have a path that is almost 150 characters long.  Unfortunately,
>DOS truncates the path I specify in my autoexec, if it gets too long.
>
>There must be a work around, no?


I wrote a program for this purpose. The only path length limit is then 
caused by your environment size. (COMMAND.COM /E:xxxx)

Further possibillities:
	- appending directories to path;
	- deleting directories from path;

If wanted I can send a copy of this program (TP4.0 source).

			Cor.