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From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Search Paths too long
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.003724.23793@techbook.com>
Date: 19 Jan 91 00:37:24 GMT
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In article <2313@beguine.UUCP> mcphil@uncmed.med.unc.edu () writes:
>
> I am haveing trouble with workstations that have long paths.  If the
> workstations path is too long (greater than 128 or so characters)
> the system login search paths fail.  I am useing the "MAP INS SEARCH"
> command to try and preserve the local mapping.  Is there a way arround
> this.  Can I preserve the long paths?  For that matter, has anyone had to
> deal with this?   Please post your responce or e-mail to the address

If the paths are due to local drives, you can use the DOS SUBST command
to shorten them.  You might also try to increase the amount of environment
space in the config.sys file by using the shell=c:\command.com /p /e:1024
the /e:1024 tells DOS to reserve 1K of space for the environment.

Ken

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