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From: brian@prism.UUCP
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Subject: Re: DOS enviroment size
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Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 15:24:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 15:24:00 1987
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Nf-From: prism.UUCP!brian    Feb 23 15:24:00 1987


There is a problem with typing *any* command to dos which is larger than
128 bytes in length -- that is why you may have 16K of environment space,
but your path is only 124 bytes long (if you use SET PATH =), or 128
bytes long (if you use PATH =).

I wrote a program that lets you "set" your path in two pieces, and then
joins them together to make one large path.  It does some real no-no's
as far as poking around in dos goes, but runs ok on Compaq 286's and
Ibm-pc's under 3.x.

If you want a copy, mail me...the source code is in turbo pascal...


    
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