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From: nar@praxis.co.uk (Nick Rozanski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PATH for Windows applications
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.080831.20503@praxis.co.uk>
Date: 7 Jun 91 08:08:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.095516.86840@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
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In article <1991Jun6.095516.86840@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> hadgraft@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft) writes:
>One of the things I find annoying about most major Windows applications, is that
>their directories must be included in the PATH. If you use a number of them,
>your PATH gets quite long.

This isn't just annoying, it can be downright inconvenient.  DOS imposes a
limit of (I think) 127 characters on the length of PATH.  If you have a number
of applications which you regularly use, your PATH becomes too long.  I have
had to get round this by renaming all of our directories to short names, eg
"W3" and "WW".  (I didn't want to confuse everybody with SUBST'ed drives).




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