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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How can I set a PATH longer than 128 bytes ?
Keywords: PATH
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Date: 1 Mar 90 22:21:51 GMT
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heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath) writes:

>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.

You can't. DOS has an internal buffer somewhere that is only 128 bytes
long. Even if you stuffed something longer into the PATH variable somehow,
it'd get truncated when DOS used it. 

This is a built-in limitation of MS-DOS/PC-DOS. You'll have to live with
it.
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