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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.30A and "SHELL=" in CONFIG.SYS (SLOWness)
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Date: 21 Oct 90 02:06:26 GMT
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In article <1486.271c8a08@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems) writes:

| You can shorten your path dramatically.  Suppose you want to point to
| (among others)
|     C:\UTILITY\NORTON
|     C:\UTILITY\DBASE4
|     C:\UTILITY\LOTUS123
|     C:\WORD
| 
| Use the SUBST command, like this:
|     SUBST X: C:\UTILITY
|     SUBST W: C:\WORD

  You can make it shorter, but there will still be a problem with some
programs which don't run well with SUBST in effect.

  One thing which is important is to get the directories in the correct
order, to minimize the number of directories searched.

  You can also copy the things you use the most to RAMdisk, and execute
them from there. That really will save time, don't forget to fix your
path, and don't forget to put command.com out there, too.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me