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From: steven@uicsgva.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Environment space size?
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Date: 11 Jan 88 22:13:00 GMT
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In dos > 3.2 (maybe earlier) you can use the /e:xx switch on the 'shell'
command in config.sys.  Look up 'shell' in your dos manual.

The problem with making PATH larger than 127 bytes isn't an environment
limitation, its a limitation of the 128 byte command line length of dos.  You
could write a program to go directly into memory, find the dos environment
and change it.  Its a little difficult to make sure you don't mess up dos's
memory, and it would likely not be very portable, put it is possible.