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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Path extension above 128 characters
Message-ID: <1990Apr13.044251.8904@uwasa.fi>
Date: 13 Apr 90 04:42:51 GMT
Sender: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: University of Vaasa
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From: Timo Salmi LASK <ts>
Subject: Re:  Path extension above 128 characters
To: cjveenm@cs.vu.nl (Veenman CJ)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 90 7:35:19 EET DST

> 
> I have a new version of cpath.exe running. It now works on Dos versions from
> 2.00 on. The problem was that Dos versions below 3.30 don't always use the
> environment they are supposed to use (in my opinion). They have another data
> space besides the environment in which the PATH is also located. This PATH is
> used as search PATH. Furthermore the first called COMMAND.COM hasn't got an 
> environment at all, but possible children of it do have one. So now I had to
> look in the Dos memory map to find the environment Dos uses when it looks for
> the PATH. That's all!
> Well it was a lot of work because I couldn't find any documantation about this.
> 
> 		Greetings from Holland,
> 		Cor.

Thanks Cor. Your program is now available by anonymous ftp from
chyde.uwasa.fi as (/pc/pd2/)cpath20.zip.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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