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From: userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PATH statement
Message-ID: <RN.141@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 13 Feb 91 06:12:27 GMT
References: <26780@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Feb8.072845.2809@rice.edu> <5334@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
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In article <5334@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, robert@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (R.Meunier 8516) writes:
>In article <1991Feb8.072845.2809@rice.edu> glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt) writes:
>>In article <26780@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>|>
>|>CONFIG.SYS:
>|>
>|>shell=c:\command.com /e:512 /p
>|>
>|>PATH=C:\BIN\WINDOWS;C:\BIN\WINDOWS\EXCEL;C:\DOS\UTILS\NORTON50;etc. etc.
>|
>|If by "has exceeded the legal limit allowed by DOS," you mean it has more
>|than 15/16 (can't remember which) directory paths specified, there is no
>|way in DOS that I know of to do this: however, a good solution is to have
>|a \BAT subdirectory which would be first or at least early in your path:
>|this would allow you to encapsulate particular software in a batch file
>|that temporarily adds the necessary path to your search path, executes your
>|program by full pathname (e.g. \DOS\UTILS\NORTON45\NI; this allows you to
>|name your batch file \BAT\NI.BAT), then prunes the search path.  Some
>|organization along these lines can go a long way.
> 
> 
> 
>   A better way is to use the subst command to create special logical drive.
>you add   lastdrive=z                in your config.sys
>          subst c:\dos\utils u:      in your autoexec.bat
> 
>and change your path to
>          path= ...  ;u:\norton50; ...
> 
I don't know if that's "better" than the "BAT suggestion.
Having a looooong PATH means that all those directories
are searched whenever DOS decides that what you have
typed is not an internal command. OK I lied, it stops
searching when it finds what it is looking for.
 
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