Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Path extension above 128 characters
Keywords: Path extension
Message-ID: <702@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 90 23:08:44 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1959@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil> nol2321@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Jim Dunn) writes:
| Yes, the PATH environment is limited to 128 characters due to the fact that
| DOS only allows you to type 128 characters on any ONE line.

  I have just posted one program to allow more than 128 bytes in the
PATH. I can't remember if there is one to go or if I already sent out
one earlier this month.

  bigpath, posted to c.b.i.p an hour ago.

  Oh yes, all of what you said about one line is true, but you can
diddle the stuff in the environment and make it longer. There's always
another way, right?
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me