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Article #8539dos and long paths
From: Anthony Petro
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 17:41
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 17:41
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having problems with dos 3.3 and a long path specification. i've
increased the environment size so as to have more than enough space
for the path and environment variables, but the path still gets
truncated.
i know i'm not out of space, in fact, because i'm setting a whole
bunch of variables AFTER the path and i get no "out of environment
space" problems.
i seem to recall discussion a while ago on the fact that dos has a
built-in limit on how long a path can be (like 128 chars) regardless
of how large the environment is. can anyone comment on that, and if
it is the case, can anyone point me to a pd program to circumvent
the limitation? (i vaguely recall references to such programs, with
names like BIGPATH etc... oh, if only i had been paying attention!)
anthony m. petro "beethoven" i can say what i want; i'm just an undergrad
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