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Subject: DOS enviroment size
Message-ID: <2678@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Feb-87 18:56:17 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 28 18:56:17 1987
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Reply-To: ljz@well.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman)
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Keywords: path environment
Summary: %PATH% must be referenced in .BAT file

In article <2778@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> holtz@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Fred Holtz) writes:

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

>
>I tried this under PC-DOS 3.1 with no luck.  I like the construct; what
>DOS are you using to achieve environment variable substitution?

Unfortunately, the above trick only works in .BAT files.  It works
with any environment variable, not just PATH.