Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer

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From: Pete Holsberg
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:00

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JRDemers <jrdemers@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

>George Seaman CRL 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

>Maybe I am missing the point here, but isn't the easiest way to increase 
>your path length to append your shell command in config.sys to read as 
>follows:

>SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:512

That increases the environment space for environmental
variables, but does it really enlarge the 128 byte space for
PATH???

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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer
Date: 1996/02/23
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