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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PATH statement
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.132318.7998@uwasa.fi>
Date: 13 Feb 91 13:23:18 GMT
References: <26780@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Feb11.201752.17466@qualcomm.com>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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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:
:

   As many posters have pointed out, the generic answer is no.  You
have to resort to round-abouts.  One trick not mentioned yet (as far
as I recall) is temporarily appending directories to the path, and
then deleting the extra directories from the path then they are no
longer needed.  Having excessive long paths is not a good idea
anyway, since they involve a slow-up. 
   Addpath and delpath facilities can be found in /pc/ts/tsbat23.arc
at grabo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        
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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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