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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: <3164@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 19 Mar 90 12:11:33 GMT
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Reply-To: d88-cwe@nada.kth.se (Christian Wettergren)
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In article <9575@wpi.wpi.edu> ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
>In article <3124@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp21@bingsunl.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover) writes:
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>>	DOS has a 60-character limit on paths, if I remember correctly.
>
>While you are basically correct, I think you misunderstood the poster's
>problem.  There have already been quite a few suggestions posted publically on
>how to fix the problem so I will not bother restating any here, but your
>explanation does raise an interesting point. 

What are we talking about here ? Is it a problem with the size of the command-line, more specific
while you enter the PATH-variable in the environment. Or is it a problem with dos limitation
of paths, that is directories and subdirectories etc, to 64 chars ?

The latter I think you can't cirumvents in any way short of rewriting MSDOS (MS-UNIX ? ;-)).

The first alternative is not impossible though! All you have to do is to look up
the environment in memory, makes sure it is the master-environment, and patch it by hand,
or better, by program!

Regards,
	Christian Wettergren
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