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Article #3059Re: Environment space, Path
From: Stephen Matheson
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:49
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:49
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From article <By73nD.B97@rice.edu>, by rbook@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert Aaron Book): > When I set my PATH in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file, the actual > PATH variable displayed when typing SET does not have all the > directories listed. I think this is because of limited environment > space, so I used the "SHELL=" line in CONFIG.SYS to make the > environment space bigger (with the /e option of COMMAND.COM). > > This did not work. How can I fix this? > > --Robert Book Hmm. Perhaps your PATH= line in AUTOEXEC.BAT is too long; DOS limits the number of characters that can be entered in one command to 127. If this is the case, you can use SUBST to equate paths with logical drive letters, making the PATH command just a list of letters that have been defined by earlier SUBST commands. -- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!news From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Environment space, Path Message-ID: <1992Nov24.044915.26229@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> Date: 24 Nov 92 04:49:15 GMT References: <By73nD.B97@rice.edu> Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group Lines: 22