Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.3 Path/Environment Space
Keywords: MS-DOS 3.3, PATHS
Message-ID: <1203@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 21:50:55 GMT
References: <2103@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <2103@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> sword@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Ronin) writes:
<I'm having a few problems setting up my pathnames properly.  I've got
<a long list of pathnames (about 240+ characters total) which I'd like
<set up.  I placed the following line in my CONFIG.SYS
<
<shell=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /p/e:1024
<
<I've done this, up to /e:4096, and the system crashes once the
<path becomes greater than 127 characters (i've tested it, one
<character at a time).

Sorry, but due limitations (buffer size?) *inside* DOS, the path like any
other environment variable must be less than 128 bytes long. Your only
hope is to put a LASTDRIVE=?? in your CONFIG.SYS and use a lot of SUBST's
in you AUTOEXEC.BAT.

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