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Article #793Re: Longer Path?
From: Bruce D Johnson
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:05
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:05
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Hi there, I know the original question dealt with lengthening the path, and there seemed to be an informed reply, so I won't comment on that, however... As another thought, how many of the files in your path directories do you actually call. Obviously \Utils quite a few, but in some (like say \Word ) almost none. I mean even if you use all the .EXE and/or .COM files they are still a small percentage of the files there. One way to speed up the system, and shorten the path, is to put these calls into one directory in the form of batch files. eg in a new directory, say /PAT put a file called Word.Bat containing the full path call to Word.exe eg c:/word/word.exe The cost is a little disk space (About 2 K per file + directory space.) Might still be worth it though. Any Comments ?? Cheers Bruce jhnbru03@uctvax.uct.ac.za
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!ucthpx!uctvax.uct.ac.za!jhnbru03 From: jhnbru03@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Bruce D Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Longer Path? Message-ID: <1992Sep15.160532.202797@uctvax.uct.ac.za> Date: 15 Sep 92 16:05:32 +0200 References: <1685C7CB4.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> <1992Sep9.100159.10701@waikato.ac.nz> Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 25