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From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.3 Path/Environment Space
Keywords: MS-DOS 3.3, PATHS
Message-ID: <4480@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 21:59:17 GMT
References: <2103@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <1203@bucket.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1203@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>In article <2103@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> sword@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Ronin) writes:
><
><...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.
>

I have a binary of a program called BIGPATH that will approximately
double the size of the path string.  Grabbed from USENET almost two
years ago, it is the product of Brian Moran (at the time he was
"brian@mirror.TMC.COM")

Check your available archives for it.  I'll send it to Rahul if
there are enough requests.  I'll mail it out if there aren't TOO
many requests: it's a little over 23kbytes as a uuencoded
self-extracting zoo file.

kEITH


Keith Ericson  at TekLabs (resident factious factotum)
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