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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I make my path bigger?
Summary: Path longer, not bigger environment
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Date: 19 Mar 90 14:14:26 GMT
References: <1941@v7fs1.UUCP> <9569@wpi.wpi.edu>
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In article <9569@wpi.wpi.edu>, ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
> 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.
> 
> The problem is that your environment size is not large enough.  In order to


I think the original poster was asking how to set a path longer
than DOS limit of 127 characters, not how to increase his
environment.  The problem encountered (even when the environment
is large enough to accept a longer path statement) is that msdos
will not accept an attempt to type a line longer than 127 characters.

There is a workaround to be found in SIMTEL20 in the SYSUTL
directory.  A program simply called BIGPATH.

I found it to work ok.  Another route is a program called
EE2 which I obtained from a BBS.  This one allows a temporary
modification of anything in the environment (provided it is
big enough), good for the current session only.  I don't
know if this program is available on SIMTEL20 but I wouldn't
be surprised if it is.

Forrest Gehrke feg@clyde.ATT.COM