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From: reeves@dvinci.usask.ca (Malcolm Reeves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I make my path bigger?
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.053404.20504@dvinci.usask.ca>
Date: 20 Mar 90 05:34:04 GMT
References: <9575@wpi.wpi.edu>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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From article <9575@wpi.wpi.edu>, by ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen):
> In article <3124@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp21@bingsunl.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover) writes:
> 
>>	DOS has a 60-character limit on paths, if I remember correctly.
> 
I thought that DOS would accept 126 chars on the command line and that the
60-char limit was typical of the space allocated for path strings by
applications software?

I know you can't fool DOS with substitutions for %1 etc in batch files.

It would be interesting to know the exact limits - I might experiment a
little to find out....... if no one comes up with a definitive answer first.