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From: bmp@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Brian M. Perkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I make my path bigger?
Message-ID: <100010002@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 90 01:52:40 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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I earlier wrote:

# / hpcupt1:comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer / bmp@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Brian M. Perkin) /  7:12 pm  Mar  9, 1990 /
# Have more than one path statement, where
# the second statement references the first as %%PATH%%%PATH% .

It appears ( from the polite and other messages I received)
that I was STTY'ed wrong when I typed this.

The variable used to expand the previous definition of the
path string should be %PATH%.

For example

Set path=c:\;c:\bin
and
Set path=%path%;c:\etc

will expand as you would expect.
(Dos documentation treats the Path command and set path= as synonomous.)

There may be a limit on the size of individual  strings, I don't know
that. The overall size of the string table is configurable with the
/E: parameter when you load COMMAND.COM (often done in the SHELL statement
in Config.Sys.

Sorry for confusion.

Brian