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From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I make my path bigger?
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.165143.20886@Octopus.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 90 16:51:43 GMT
References: <1941@v7fs1.UUCP>
Reply-To: stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick )
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA
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In article <1941@v7fs1.UUCP> sv@v7fs1.UUCP (Steve Verity) writes:
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>I want to have a path that is almost 150 characters long.  Unfortunately,
>DOS truncates the path I specify in my autoexec, if it gets too long.
>
>There must be a work around, no?
>

Yes! There is. The environment used by DOS is a function of the shell, COMMAND.COM
There is a switch for command.com /E:<n> where n specifies the environment size.
This can be up to 32767 bytes in length. To do this at boot up put the line
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P

The /P is needed to make the fisrt copy of command "permenant" and force it to
load autoexec.bat.  Since the default environment size is 128 bytes your path
exceeds that limit....


Steve