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From: psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Path extension above 128 characters
Keywords: Path extension
Message-ID: <1034@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 16 Mar 90 18:37:49 GMT
References: <5986@star.cs.vu.nl> <1990Mar16.123731.3224@world.std.com>
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <1990Mar16.123731.3224@world.std.com> jstone@world.std.com (Jeffrey R Stone) writes:
>Steve Verity asked how to create a path string of 150 charaacters or
>so.  I do it in my AUTOEXEC.BAT using batch file variables, as follows:
>
>  SET PATH=c:\bin;c:\dos; ... <etc>
>  SET PATH=%PATH%;d:\games;...<etc>
>  SET PATH=%PATH%;<more stuff>

I tried this in my MSDOS 3.3 with an environmental variable other than
PATH.  Attempting to add a piece that would take the variable beyond
128 resulted in no action being taken.  As far as I can see from
this experiment, 128 seems to be a hard limit.

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