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From: jpd@usl-pc.UUCP (DugalJP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Environment space size?
Keywords: environment variables size
Message-ID: <596@usl-pc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 17:16:16 GMT
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In article <39592@ti-csl.CSNET> khill@home.UUCP (Ken Hill - Patents) writes:
>...  Is there any way
>to have a PATH which is longer than this [128 bytes]?  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)

Ken, look at the SUBST command.  It will let you replace a pathname with
a drive name, shortening things a bit!  You may have to adjust the LASTDRIVE
parm in the config.sys file, though.
PS: The inverse of SUBST is JOIN.

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