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In article <Dn7Ex2.2s9@mccc.edu>, pjh@mccc.edu says...
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>mrestifo@wizvax.net (Mark J. Restifo) wrote:
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>>On Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:46:07 GMT, in comp.archives.msdos.d,
>>zil@azstarnet.com (Zilbandy) recently put forth:
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>>>| George Seaman  CRL <hi-tech@aloha.com> wrote:
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>>>| >The best way if you wish to extend the path is to use a diffrent dos such 
>>>| >as "4DOS " in lieu of that you should shorten the directory names. ie. 
>>>| >Windows becomes win or w \ lotus becomes 123 or SSL (spread sheet lotus).
>>>| >   Aloha G. Seaman  CRL
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>>>| I did this once. (shorten directory names) Boy what a pain...
>>>| Unless you want to spend a couple of hours changing every
>>>| c:\windows line to c:\win in all the ini files and for many icons
>>>| in various groups,
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>>Actually, many programs automatically look in the c:\WIN or c:\WIN\SYSTEM
>>directories for various dll's. Shorter dir names do help, but if you have
>>to have a lot of them in the path, after a while it becomes the law of
>>diminishing returns. What I do is use the full C:\blah\blah path in my
>>program groups, as windows doesn't really need to search the path most
>>times - it already has the program paths stored. I then use the SUBST
>>command in my autoexec.bat for any of the longer directory paths I wish to
>>use in the path. This way my path is shorter and the net effect is
>>achieved:
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>>path=c:\;c:\win3;d:\;e:\bin;etc
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>I have my PATH set in CONFIG.SYS, with a "set path="
>However, it's still only 128 bytes max. Is there a way to
>use SUBST in CONFIG.SYS?
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If you set your path in the CONFIG.SYS file, it IS NOT limited to 128 bytes.  The 
problem is that if you try to add another path, either in the AUTOEXEC.BAT or from 
the command line, it truncates to 128.

John