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From: bright@dataio.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS enviroment size
Message-ID: <1260@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 13:16:27 EST
Article-I.D.: dataio.1260
Posted: Mon Mar  2 13:16:27 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 23:07:46 EST
References: <2091@ncoast.UUCP> <409500003@prism> <2986@iuvax.UUCP> <2771@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <119@homxb.UUCP> <2778@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O - FutureNet Corp., Redmond, WA
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In article <2778@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> holtz@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Fred Holtz) writes:
>In article <119@homxb.UUCP> singhal@homxb.UUCP (S.SINGHAL) writes:
>>By using the following lines, you can cratea a PATH as long as you like:
>>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?

That won't work from the DOS command line, it has to be in a .BAT file.
Environment variable substitution works with 3.1.