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From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Path Name Length
Message-ID: <2501@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 88 14:45:04 GMT
References: <1796@uhccux.UUCP> <10611@steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: Use short bat files and short PATHs

Perhaps the problem can be avoided altogether by setting up one directory
(let's say c:\bin) that contains .bat files to execute your programs
stored in other directories.

This a) makes the PATH short - perhaps all it may be is: c:\bin; c;\dos;
     b) makes it shorter to find a program since all the directories in
        the path does not have to be searched.
     c) also provides a way to set up the environment for that particular
        program.  For example, let us say that a program called "someprog"
        requires an environment variable called "someenvv" to be set.  You
        can set up this variable using the batch file, execute the program,
        and then scrap this variable so that it does not take up any
        environment space.

             sp.bat =   set someenvv=whatever
                        c:\somedir\someprog
                        set someenvv=

'tis what I do and has worked well for me.  You probably want to add an
"echo off" also to the batch file.

Venu P Gopal
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