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Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer

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From: Hivolt300
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:00
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  Why a path that is more than 127 chars long? I would really like to
know. Having that
many directories in your path slows the system down, also the order in
which you specify your directories slows it down too. for example, If you
run in windows most of the time, and your path looks like this...

path=c:\dos;c:\;c:\mouse;c:\blah;c:\whatever;c:\windows;c:\windows\system

  then everything you run in windows has to search all the directories
proceeding the c:\windows before it finds the file it's looking for
wasting time didling your HDD back and forth from TRK 0 through the FATs
over & over again searching usless directories for the given task. I have
found that putting just the bare minimum directories in your path and
writing batch files into these path directories to shortcut to all your
other junk that don't need a path makes the system run sooooo much nicer &
run faster too.

                                                                Terry
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Subject: Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer
Date: 1996/03/20
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