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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (Bill Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How can I set a PATH longer than 128 bytes ?
Message-ID: <10441@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 90 01:52:32 GMT
References: <5762@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> <90059.112138GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET>
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <90059.112138GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes:
+In article <5762@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>, heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert
+Heath) says:
+>
+>How can I set my dos PATH variable longer than 128 bytes?  I'm running
+>DOS 3.3.  It seems when I set my PATH variable in my AUTOEXEC.BAT,
+>DOS truncates anything longer than 128 bytes.  Is there a way to do
+>this by assigning shorter environment variables and concatenating
+>them somehow ? Thanks.
+>
+>        Robert Heath
+
+     Concatenating variables will *NOT* work at all ...

On my Compaq 386 running DOS 3.31 and an IBM PC/AT running PCDOS 3.10 I
have no problem concatenating environment variables *within batch
files*. You can't do it from the command line though. Try the following
in your autoexec.bat:

set path=whatever_the_first_part_of_your_path_is
set path=%path%;whatever_the_next_part_of_your_path_is
...

Just don't make any single "set" command longer than 128 (see below).

+...the problem is the DOS
+limit itself.  DOS does not allow you to enter environment variables that are
+longer than 128 characters through DOS. ...

The problem is that MSDOS will not allow a command line over 128 characters
in length.
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