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Article #4593Re: PATH statement
From: John Stanley
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 17:48
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 17:48
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glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt) writes:
> In article <26780@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hoo
> >
> >My path statement has exceeded the legal limit allowed by DOS. Is there
> >any way to extend this? I thought the standard way would be to do:
> >
> If by "has exceeded the legal limit allowed by DOS," you mean it has more
> than 15/16 (can't remember which) directory paths specified, there is no
> way in DOS that I know of to do this: however, a good solution is to have
> a \BAT subdirectory which would be first or at least early in your path:
I have never seen a 15/16 directory path limit. I have seen the 127
character line length limit. Under 3.3, my current PATH is:
PATH=C:\DOS;C:\;H:\;I:\;J:\;K:\;L:\;M:\;N:\;O:\;P:\;Q:\;R:\;T:\;U:\;
V:\;W:\;X:\;Y:\;Z:\;C:\BATS
which is 21, if I counted right. I have SUBST's for everything from H: to
Z:, except S:.
If you can't use SUBST's, you will probably be stuck creating a BAT
directory with bat files to run everything.
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