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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: PATH statement
Message-ID: <Py02w1w163w@phoenix.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 17:48:00 GMT
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glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt) writes:

> In article <26780@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hoo
> >
> >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:
> >
> 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:

   I have never seen a 15/16 directory path limit. I have seen the 127
character line length limit. Under 3.3, my current PATH is:

	PATH=C:\DOS;C:\;H:\;I:\;J:\;K:\;L:\;M:\;N:\;O:\;P:\;Q:\;R:\;T:\;U:\;
         V:\;W:\;X:\;Y:\;Z:\;C:\BATS

which is 21, if I counted right. I have SUBST's for everything from H: to
Z:, except S:.

   If you can't use SUBST's, you will probably be stuck creating a BAT
directory with bat files to run everything.