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From: singhal@homxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS enviroment size
Message-ID: <119@homxb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 17:28:30 EST
Article-I.D.: homxb.119
Posted: Fri Feb 27 17:28:30 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 13:46:51 EST
References: <2091@ncoast.UUCP> <409500003@prism> <2986@iuvax.UUCP> <2771@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
Lines: 22
Keywords: subst, lastdrive
Summary: "Legal" Method for very long PATHs

In article <2771@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, holtz@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Fred Holtz) writes:
> 
> 
> The 'legitimate' way to create long path strings is to use the lastdrive
> option in config.sys and the subst command.  Example:
>   lastdrive=k            (say the 'real' last drive is d:)
> 
>   subst e: c:\bin\util
>   subst f: c:\bin\lang
>          ......
>   path=d:\;c:\dos;c:\;e:\;f:\;g:\;h:\;i:\;j:\;k:\
> 
By using the following lines, you can cratea a PATH as long as you like
(subject to environment size limitations) :

PATH=c:\;c:\this\that;c:\work\bin
PATH=%PATH%;c:\this\also;c:\ramres
PATH=%PATH%;c:\thats\all

(you get the idea ?)

---Sharad Singhal