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From: d88-cwe@nada.kth.se (Christian Wettergren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I make my path bigger?
Message-ID: <3162@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 19 Mar 90 12:01:39 GMT
References: <1941@v7fs1.UUCP> <9569@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: d88-cwe@nada.kth.se (Christian Wettergren)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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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?

Beware, though! MSDOS 3.2 will hang itself in a strange way if your 
commandline exceeds eigthy chars. If it is exactly eigthy chars, command.com
will behave strange, outputting %d, %s etc until you press Ctrl-C.

This can't be cirumvented without a program.

I discovered this while I was writing a batch-utility that saved
parts of paths in batch-files and then recalled them to the path. I had
to give upp this project because of this limitation. (Yes, a batch-file
that outputted another batch-file.)

Regards,
	Christian Wettergren

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