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From: jrc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Jim Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Search Paths too long
Message-ID: <14360001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 18:30:30 GMT
References: <2313@beguine.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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If you're are running MS-DOS 3.30+, you may be able to expand your search path
without forcing COMMAND.COM to be resident.  Recalling that the environment
space is not fixed until a program has been executed, you can...

SET PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;OTHER_VALID_THINGS;JUST_A_BIG_LONG_PAD_STRING_TO_TAKE_SPACE
	.
	.
	.
Run/Load a Program Here With Complete Pathname Specified
	.
	.
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SET PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;OTHER_VALID_THINGS;
	.
	.
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Load the network.

This tricks the system into reserving extra space for a long path, and then
sets the correct (short) path before the network is loaded.  This may leave
enough room for LOGIN to extend the path into the memory formerly allocated
for the ...BIG_LONG_PAD_STRING...


Jim Conrad
jrc@hpbsrl.hp.com