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From: bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp (BRADLEY GRIGOR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Long PATH in DOS
Message-ID: <90030820225590@masnet.uucp>
Date: 2 Mar 90 14:47:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath) writes:
Subj: How can I set a PATH longer than 128 bytes ?

hR>How can I set my dos PATH variable longer than 128 bytes?  I'm running
hR>DOS 3.3.  It seems when I set my PATH variable in my AUTOEXEC.BAT,
hR>DOS truncates anything longer than 128 bytes.  Is there a way to do
hR>this by assigning shorter environment variables and concatenating 
hR>them somehow ? Thanks.

If you really need all those entries in your PATH, try using
drive letters as SUBSTitutes for entire paths (see the SUBST
command in your DOS documentation for more details).  For
example, if you say:  SUBST  G  C:\DOS\UTILS  then you can use
the drive G: as a substitute for the path C:\DOS\UTILS.  Be sure
to configure a sufficient number of drive letters with the
LASTDRIVE= command in CONFIG.SYS.  I normally run LASTDRIVE=Z, so
that I can use SUBST freely.

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