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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PATH statement
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Date: 11 Feb 91 17:26:44 GMT
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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1991 06:49:15 GMT

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
>[stuff deleted followed by an example of path:]
>PATH=C:\BIN\WINDOWS;C:\BIN\WINDOWS\EXCEL;C:\DOS\UTILS\NORTON50;etc. etc.

Brian,

You path should not exceed 128 characters, regardless of the size of your
environment (increasing your environment is wonderful if you have a lot
of env. variables).
The easiest way to fix your problem is to rename your descriptive directory
names, and maybe to pull some of them from under the multilayers of other
directories. How about pulling NORTON to the surface? Same path you showed:
PATH=C:\WIN;C:\WIN\EXC;C:\NORTON;
See what I mean?
Also, if you have directories in the path that contain programs which could
be run using batch files without having that directory in the path, open
one directory called BATCH and put all of those wonderful *.bat's in there :)
Another way to do it, if you use different configurations, for, let's say,
programming, and another time Windows and other stuff, have two different
sets of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT with different environments.

Tony