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From: daparish@biivax.dp.beckman.com
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Subject: Re: PATH statement
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Date: 16 Feb 91 01:02:36 GMT
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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:
> shell=c:\command.com /e:512 /p
> PATH=C:\BIN\WINDOWS;C:\BIN\WINDOWS\EXCEL;C:\DOS\UTILS\NORTON50;etc. etc.
> I tried using the SUBST for the more frequently accesed directories:
> SUBST U: C:\DOS\UTILS
> So I could use U: instead, but Windows 3.0 chokes on the SUBST command.
> Brian

I suggest creating a c:\bat directory which is included in the PATH.
remove for example c:\dos\util\norton50, create a batch file \BAT\NU.BAT =
c:\dos\norton\nu %1 %2 		or whatever.

and add any other dos commands required (such as cd if necc.).

do the same for any other programs.
this keeps the path short for a very small overhead (and saves searching all
those damn directories for every command).