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From: psfales@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS patches
Message-ID: <1767@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: Sun, 31-May-87 22:15:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 31 22:15:42 1987
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In article <923@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP>, curl@wjvax.UUCP (Jim Curl) writes:
> I'm looking for ways to patch DOS in order to do two things:
> 
>     (1) I'd like to be able to have a longer PATH than the 128 or so
>         characters now allowed -- this limitation might be a function
>         of my editor?

Once again, the problem is not with DOS, but the brain damaged
COMMAND.COM.  COMMAND.COM has a 128 byte limit on the number of character
on a command line, DOS has no problem with longer environment variables.
I have heard references to PD programs which manipulate the environment to
create paths longer than 128 characters.  The info-ibmpc newsletter
Vol 6 #32 mentioned a program call CHGPATH.C to perform this function.

>     (2) I'd like to be able to expand the type-ahead keyboard buffer.
> 

I have seen PD programs to do this, however I second the suggestion of
another poster to use FANSI-CONSOLE.  I provides this function plus
MANY other useful features.
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