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From: glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt)
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Subject: Re: PATH statement
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Date: 8 Feb 91 07:28:45 GMT
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In article <26780@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>
>My path statement has exceeded the legal limit allowed by DOS.  Is there
>any way to extend this?  I thought the standard way would be to do:
>
>CONFIG.SYS:
>
>shell=c:\command.com /e:512 /p
>
>Since my environment space was initially set to 256bytes.  Adding another
>256 did not help.  I have one hard drive, so I have lots of stuff like:
>
>PATH=C:\BIN\WINDOWS;C:\BIN\WINDOWS\EXCEL;C:\DOS\UTILS\NORTON50;etc. etc.

Expanding your environment space will only help if the error you're getting
is "Out of environment space" (pardon the Blinding Flash of the Obvious -
see below).

If by "has exceeded the legal limit allowed by DOS," you mean it has more
than 15/16 (can't remember which) directory paths specified, there is no
way in DOS that I know of to do this: however, a good solution is to have
a \BAT subdirectory which would be first or at least early in your path:
this would allow you to encapsulate particular software in a batch file
that temporarily adds the necessary path to your search path, executes your
program by full pathname (e.g. \DOS\UTILS\NORTON45\NI; this allows you to
name your batch file \BAT\NI.BAT), then prunes the search path.  Some
organization along these lines can go a long way.

Hope this helps.




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