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From: singhal@homxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS enviroment size
Message-ID: <121@homxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 10:28:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 10:28:47 1987
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In article <2778@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, holtz@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Fred Holtz) writes:
> >By using the following lines, you can create 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 ?)
> >
> 
> 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?
> 
> Fred Holtz
> holtz@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU

The above connstruct works ONLY  in  batch  files and NOT at the DOS level. As
far as I know it works in DOS 3.1 also.

---Sharad Singhal