Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!ontmoh!diamond
From: diamond@ontmoh.UUCP (Gerald Diamond, ENV 326-1661)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.30A and "SHELL=" in CONFIG.SYS (SLOWness)
Message-ID: <656261388.1689@ontmoh.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 14:49:48 GMT
References: <1236@netmbx.UUCP>
Organization: Ontario Ministry of Health -- GOMIG BBS, Toronto, Canada
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From article <1236@netmbx.UUCP>, by tom@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Filz):
> pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger) writes:
> 
>>Actually, my path seems to be limited to ~120 bytes, after which it
>>truncates.  Yet another anomoly of DOS that is no end of an annoyance.
> 
> Hey, why would anybody want such a long path? Ever thought about the time 
> you would save with a shorter path and a batch directory for calling all
> those application programs? 
> 
>some useful advice omitted... 
> Thomas Filz


Other things you can do include

1. keep you directory names *short* 3 letters will do most of the  time

2. write a batch file that saves your default path in  an
   environment variable and crate a new, temporary path which
   includes the directory you have  the program in
   (or "in which you have the program" for grammar types  :-)  )

3. write a batch file that moves you to the correct directory

I prefer a combination of 1. and 3. and have one or two  batch
files that together run the majority of my software.  

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