Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!geac!jtsv16!blister!micasa!jzl From: jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: PATH statement Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 01:26:10 GMT References: <1991Feb11.201752.17466@qualcomm.com> Lines: 51 rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes: > In article <26780@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hoo > > > >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 bi > you make your environment, your PATH still has a limit of 127 bytes. There's > no easy way around it except the standard methods: There is a program that will extend the 127 char limit to 1023 chars. I have been using it for over a year with MSDOS 4.01 without a problem. It's called BSET . Another program that I used with MSDOS 3.3 was SETPATH but that program would not work too-well with MSDOS 4.01. =============================================================================== BSET v1.10 Copyright 1989, Brad Stephenson I've often wanted a way to exceed the DOS limitation of 127 characters for an environment variable. Most of the time I wanted to be able to set my DOS PATH to include a large number of directories without resorting to the SUBST command. BSET (Big SET) provides that ability. It reads strings from a data file and places those strings in the "parent" environment. It's as if you typed in the strings on the command line using the SET command, | except you are limited to 1023 characters, not 127. BSET is free software. The author retains all rights to the program, but you may distribute BSET as long as there is no fee charged. Brad Stephenson 670 Edgeworth Jenison, MI 49428 Compuserve ID 71620,1035 =============================================================================== ----- Jack Z. Lupic - Scarborough, Ont., Canada {aimed,becker,blister,torag,utdoe}!micasa!jzl