Re: dos and long paths

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From: Michael Daneman
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 21:16

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In article <67065@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> oistony@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (Anthony Petro) writes:
> 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 suggest you use 4DOS.  It is a shareware substitute for COMMAND.COM and
it allows, among numerous other things, long PATH names.
It also has aliases, file name completion, powerfull batch language, 
good environment support, etc.  And it is almost 100% COMMAND.COM
compatible.  I've been using it for about a month now and I don't think
I would be able to switch back to COMMAND.COM with serious emotional
trauma.

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Subject: Re: dos and long paths
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