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In article <67065@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> oistony@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu writes:

>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!)

DOS has a built-in limit for setting all environment variables, 128
chars.  You have to use some other program to set them DOS reads them
alright. I use 4DOS, but there are several other programs check at 
SIMTEL or FUNIC.