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Article #76Re: How do I make my path bigger?
From: Christian Wettergren
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 12:01
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 12:01
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In article <1941@v7fs1.UUCP> sv@v7fs1.UUCP (Steve Verity) writes: >I want to have a path that is almost 150 characters long. Unfortunately, >DOS truncates the path I specify in my autoexec, if it gets too long. >There must be a work around, no? Beware, though! MSDOS 3.2 will hang itself in a strange way if your commandline exceeds eigthy chars. If it is exactly eigthy chars, command.com will behave strange, outputting %d, %s etc until you press Ctrl-C. This can't be cirumvented without a program. I discovered this while I was writing a batch-utility that saved parts of paths in batch-files and then recalled them to the path. I had to give upp this project because of this limitation. (Yes, a batch-file that outputted another batch-file.) Regards, Christian Wettergren -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Computer Science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is about telescopes" - Edgar Dijkstra Christian Wettergren, d88-cwe@nada.kth.se, 08 - 36 96 92
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!kth.se!draken!d88-cwe From: d88-cwe@nada.kth.se (Christian Wettergren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: How do I make my path bigger? Message-ID: <3162@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 19 Mar 90 12:01:39 GMT References: <1941@v7fs1.UUCP> <9569@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: d88-cwe@nada.kth.se (Christian Wettergren) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 25