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From: nraoaoc@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How can I set a PATH longer than 128 bytes?
Summary: One more suggestion.
Message-ID: <3885@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 90 12:34:40 GMT
References: <5762@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> <31300010@inmet> <25f1ea76.25da@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: dbriggs@nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
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In article <25f1ea76.25da@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
> [Many suggestions on how to deal with only 128 bytes of PATH space]

Here's one more.

Use a RAM resident program such as CED to do alias expansion.  If a directory
has only a couple of executable programs in it, (such as source files plus
an executable, or executable plus data files), define aliases to these
executables, and don't put the directories in the path at all.  You might be
surprised to find how many directories fall into this category.

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