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mrestifo@wizvax.net (Mark J. Restifo) wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:46:07 GMT, in comp.archives.msdos.d,
>zil@azstarnet.com (Zilbandy) recently put forth:

>>| George Seaman  CRL <hi-tech@aloha.com> wrote:

>>| >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

>>| 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,

>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:

>path=c:\;c:\win3;d:\;e:\bin;etc

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?