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From: larry@palan.uucp (Larry Strickland)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Path Extender
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.155517.3291@palan.uucp>
Date: 17 Mar 91 15:55:17 GMT
References: <1991Mar17.020053.24049@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: Palantir Systems, Inc.
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In article <1991Mar17.020053.24049@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
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>I am looking for a program that will allow me to have a path greater than the
>128bytes that DOS currently allows me.  I have seen one called APPATH, but
>it does not work!

There are two things you might try that are fairly easy.  First, get a copy of
4DOS.  It extends (at least most of the time) the input buffer for DOS so you
can have lonther PATHs.

If that doesn't/can't/won't work, try using the SUBST command from DOS to make
short drive names for your long directory names.  That is,

	C:\>SUBST D: C:\very\long\path\name

Then you can include D:\ in your PATH statement instead of the long path and
save space.  However, there is a speed/memory differential.  How much I've
never been able to say.

-larry