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From: sadow@ncsatl.uucp (Scott C. Sadow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How can I set a PATH longer than 128 bytes ?
Message-ID: <1494.25ed11f7@ncsatl.uucp>
Date: 1 Mar 90 12:13:43 GMT
References: <5762@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
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Organization: National Computer Systems, Atlanta, GA
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In article <5762@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>, 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.
> 
> 	Robert Heath

   The problem is you are running out of environment space. Check your DOS
manual for the correct syntax, but you need the following in you 
CONFIG.SYS: (I am typing this in from memory)

shell=c:command.com /e:256 /p

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Scott Sadow			...gatech!ncsatl!sadow