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From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Setting the path variable in autoexec.bat
Keywords: path
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.211556.10833@Octopus.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 90 21:15:56 GMT
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In article <1102@valinor.ACA.MCC.COM> hang@valinor.ACA.MCC.COM (Hang Ho Ng) writes:
>I have a number of paths that I want to include in the PATH variable in
>autoexec.bat file. Could someone tell me how to do it? I've tried putting 
>all the paths in one extra long line but somehow the trailing paths are
>always truncated. I think there must be a line continuation character that
>I can use as in setting the PATH variable in Unix.
>
>

(Asbestos Suit: ON)  8-)

This was covered a couple of months ago. The DOS limitation on command
strings (PATH=<foo> for instance) is 128 bytes. If your path is longer than 
that you will either need some program to allow you to enter a longer string.
(Of which I don't know of any) or you will need to limit your path to a smaller
size and use batch files to assist in navigation.
 
 Hope this helps....
 Steve


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