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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: PATH statement
Message-ID: <5573@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 17:04:27 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.072845.2809@rice.edu> <Py02w1w163w@phoenix.com>
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Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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<> >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:
<
< 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

SUBST confuses a lot of disk utilities.  I prefer to simply have a longer PATH
variable.  There are numerous routines to permit this, many of which are 
available from SIMTEL and other archives.  

I even have my own, APPENV21, which simply provides a command for appending
arbitrary text to the end of an existing environment variable, such as PATH.

For example:

	set PATH=c:\bin;c:\dos;c:\norton;c:\spedstor;c:\qemm;d:\video;
	appenv PATH=d:\com\rbcomm33;d:\archiver\zoo;
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