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On Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:26:28 +0000 Paul Dingley
<paul@rivdell.demon.co.uk>,
 while pondering aus.computers.ibm-pc,
 wrote:

>In article <4dd93u$m6e$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au>, John Savage
>>Simon Oldfield <soldfiel@nla.gov.au> writes:
>>>Can I extend the length of the PATH somehow ?
>>>I tried putting a SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /E:32768 in my CONFIG.SYS but it
>>
>>That is far too large an environment, and is not the source of your problem.
>>In version 6 (maybe 5, too) you can get > 120 chars in PATH if you set
>>PATH from within config.sys, and don't modify it in autoexec.bat or later.

>If you set the path in the config.sys, you CAN alter it from apps after
>startup - we've done it in a VB program under Windows, but the trick is
>you need to pad the path to a maximum length in the config.sys by using
>the SemiColon character.....

Even then, some programs barf at you unless they actually ARE on the
PATH (expecially for things like configuration files).

You can solve this by...

     DO_WHATEVER.BAT
     @echo off
     cd where-ever
     path > %temp%\old_path.bat
     path new_path;%path%
     do_whatever
     %temp%\old_path
     del %temp%-old_path

Then, run this batch file instead of the .EXE, which is run in line 5.

I used a slightly enhanced version of this batch file for the PCs at
work for DOS programs in a networked environment where there might be
10 or more programs all clamoring to be on the PATH.

pete
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Peter Welsby				email: welsbyp@dpi.qld.gov.au
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