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From: oistony@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (Anthony Petro)
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Subject: dos and long paths
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Date: 22 Mar 91 17:41:03 GMT
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having problems with dos 3.3 and a long path specification.  i've 
increased the environment size so as to have more than enough space 
for the path and environment variables, but the path still gets 
truncated.

i know i'm not out of space, in fact, because i'm setting a whole 
bunch of variables AFTER the path and i get no "out of environment 
space" problems.

i seem to recall discussion a while ago on the fact that dos has a 
built-in limit on how long a path can be (like 128 chars) regardless 
of how large the environment is.  can anyone comment on that, and if 
it is the case, can anyone point me to a pd program to circumvent 
the limitation?  (i vaguely recall references to such programs, with 
names like BIGPATH etc... oh, if only i had been paying attention!)

anthony m. petro   "beethoven"    i can say what i want; i'm just an undergrad
oistony@UBVMSD.BITNET             "frame by frame,
oistony@mednet.bitnet              death by drowning,
petro@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu         in your own
                                   in your own...
                                   analysis..."