Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer

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From: Paul Dingley
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <4dd93u$m6e$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au>, John Savage
<koala@sydney.dialix.com.au> writes
>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.....

Cheers >> Paul <<

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From: Paul Dingley <paul@rivdell.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Q] : How to make PATH longer
Date: 1996/01/16
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