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Article #3880Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer
From: Mike S. Avelar
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:00
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Zilbandy wrote: > > 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, leave the windows directory alone.... In my > case, (I'm really not very bright...) I actually changed it back > to c:\windows at some later date. Don't remember why. Guess I was > just bored one day. I've even been known to reformat my hard disk > and restore everything from floppy backups just for something to > do... Guess I should really get a hobby... Maybe I'll play with > FDISK today, just for something to do! > I used to format my HDs... but I don't now... I really want to cuz I'm running win95 (boy does it suck) and I really don't have any other OS that will run on my PC. I've got DOS 6.22 and Win311... but I don't want to go through all that $#!*. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Barry Burnett (Zilbandy) > Tucson, Arizona USA > zil@azstarnet.com > > Windows 95!... from the same people who brought you EDLIN! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Mike S. Avelar ------------------------------------------------------------------- msa@capitalnet.com bu732@freenet.carleton.ca The Forth Dimention (Netscape 2.0 Req') http://www.capitalnet.com/~msa ------------------------------------------------------------------- Crusade Against Shinny Happy People Member #22-95 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f53ba,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 111d31,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gid111d31,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,4c4b851412319ff X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public X-Google-Thread: 1674b9,c62afe7bb2540ff X-Google-Attributes: gid1674b9,public From: "Mike S. Avelar" <msa@capitalnet.com> Subject: Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer Date: 1996/02/23 Message-ID: <312E353E.41FC@capitalnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 140783662 references: <4cd28l$87b@widow.nla.gov.au> <4dd93u$m6e$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> <7TABeDAkv$+wEweU@rivdell.demon.co.uk> <4e6i8a$99d@cloner3.netcom.com> <4e9i8k$ufe@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> <4ej1c5$h0l@kannews.ca.newbridge.com> <31111f73.6461157@204.96.200.6> <4f2oms$naj@news1.inlink.com> <4fhd2i$ej1@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> <4fpls1$h3j@sleepy.inch.com> <4g3ino$r8e@news.aloha.com> <4g5ena$86k@news.azstarnet.com> to: Zilbandy <zil@azstarnet.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: MSA SoftWare mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I)