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From: offline@infopls.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOS Paths
Message-ID: <Lk68w1w163w@infopls.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:58:45 GMT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL
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jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu writes:
>My path exceeds  the legal limit allowed for DOS...Any pointers?
I have one, or a few at least. What I did to get past this is make a 
bunch of batch files for all my utils that werent AUTOEXEC'd, or TSRs,
and I put the batch file directory on my path, so that when I type
T, for example, Telix pops up. The batch file looks like this:
@echo off
cls
c:
cd\telix
telix
And that loads up telix (I also have lines to shut off my screen saver, 
which mucks up transfers). Thats all there is to it!:) And you can make 
as many batch files as you want, without having to large amounts of
environments space dedicated to a 65 character path. My apth is still 
huge, but it makes no difference... I use the batch files for everything.
Hope this helps!
   Jeff Gostin (jgostin@timeless.UUCP|offline@infopls.chi.il.us)