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From: kolstad@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
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Subject: Re: PATH statement
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Date: 12 Feb 91 00:10:51 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.201752.17466@qualcomm.com> rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>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 Stuff]
>>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:
>
>Your line to increase the environment space was correct, but no matter how big
>you make your environment, your PATH still has a limit of 127 bytes.  There's
>no easy way around it except the standard methods:
 
[various methods described]
 
One other idea: Use 4DOS.  After using a "sane" operating system like Amiga
DOS or even UNIX, 4DOS is almost a must to keep your sanity.  ("You mean
I can't enter DEL <this> <that> <and the next thing>?" "And I can't COPY
<a> <b> <and c> <all to here>?"  "You gotta be kidding!")

4DOS is, in my opinion, an EXCELLENT package.

What concerns us here, though, is ALIASEs.  4DOS will let you have as many
aliases as you like... each alias can contain as many commands as you like,
as long as no single alias exceeds 255 characters.  And of course, aliases
can chain themselves to batch (BTM) files, more aliases, or whatever, if
need be.

Most of our "program" aliases are simple things like "NORTON=cdd c:\norton ^
ni"  Here, "cdd" is "change drive and directory" (in case you're sitting
on A:, cdd is a very useful internal 4DOS command), and the ^ separates
statements.
 
						---Joel Kolstad
						kolstad@jomby.cs.wisc.edu
						kolstad@cae.wisc.edu