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Subject: Re: Environment space size?
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From: khill@home.csc.ti.com (Ken Hill - Patents)
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Subject: Re: Environment space size?
Keywords: environment variables size
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Date: 8 Jan 88 19:42:32 GMT
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Posted: Fri Jan  8 13:42:32 1988

In article <554@leah.Albany.Edu> emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm)
writes:
.
.Also note that no environment variable can occupy more than 127 (128?) bytes
.each!
.
This limit has just bitten me for the PATH variable.  Is there any way
to have a PATH which is longer than this?  Some of the alternate
methods posted here recently are fine, but some software wants to
hunt the PATH looking for various things, and I don't want to store
everything close to the root directory. (Reaching 3 subdirectories each
3 levels down burns up that 128 bytes real fast)

I am using MS-DOS 3.3.  Does anyone have any patches which will allow
a larger PATH variable, or other fixes (short of restructuring my disk)
which will allow searching on the PATH variable?  (I don't have source
to some of this software, so fixing it at that level is not an option.)

Thanx.
There are no typos.  If you think you saw one, see an opthamolo... optaha...
ophthamal... eye doctor.
Ken Hill
{convex!smu, texsun,im4u,seismo!ut-sally!im4u}!ti-csl!khill

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