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From: rzi@philpav.UUCP (Roman Zielinski)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: win 3.0 and setpath/cpath
Message-ID: <436@philpav.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 90 07:33:47 GMT
Organization: Philips TDS, Stockholm, Sweden
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If You create a loooooooong path (for example when using setpath or cpath, both
posted i c.b.i.p some weeks ago will give You troubles.

Windows 3.0  hangs  during  installing  from  DOS, or  windows says "Unxepected
error" if you run setup from an icon.

I had not found other problems with long paths (> 127), so maybe it's just 
to remember the phenomenon next time You reinstall windows...


(....  I had posted this news some days ago, but due to some comm problems I am
not sure that it has been propageted to 'world')


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