Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:46743 comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer:475 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!news From: tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Fabian) Subject: Re: Path extension above 128 characters Message-ID: <1990Mar20.014733.3747@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Keywords: Path extension Reply-To: tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Fabian) Organization: ops References: <5986@star.cs.vu.nl> <1990Mar16.123731.3224@world.std.com> <1034@manta.NOSC.MIL> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 01:47:33 GMT In article <1034@manta.NOSC.MIL> psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh) writes: >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; ... >> SET PATH=%PATH%;d:\games;... >> SET PATH=%PATH%; > >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. > >-- >---- >Scot McIntosh >Internet: psm@helios.nosc.mil >UUCP: {ihnp4,akgua,decvax,decwest,ucbvax}!sdscvax!nosc!psm the real issue here is not the length of the PATH.. rather it's the amount of environment space you've got allocated... as long as you don't load an RAM resident programs, you can use "ANY" amount of environment space you want to.. which means any length path... or you can use the /E switch on the SHELL command in your CONFIG.SYS to define a larger default environment.. something like SHELL COMMAND.COM /E:1024 -- ---------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Ted Fabian NASA Lewis Research Center tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov *my opinions tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov *are my own.. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Ted Fabian NASA Lewis Research Center tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov *my opinions tfabian@mars.lerc.nasa.gov *are my own..