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Article #94Re: How do I make my path bigger?
From: Malcolm Reeves
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 1990 05:34
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 1990 05:34
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From article <9575@wpi.wpi.edu>, by ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen): > In article <3124@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp21@bingsunl.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover) writes: > >> DOS has a 60-character limit on paths, if I remember correctly. > I thought that DOS would accept 126 chars on the command line and that the 60-char limit was typical of the space allocated for path strings by applications software? I know you can't fool DOS with substitutions for %1 etc in batch files. It would be interesting to know the exact limits - I might experiment a little to find out....... if no one comes up with a definitive answer first.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!dvinci!reeves From: reeves@dvinci.usask.ca (Malcolm Reeves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: How do I make my path bigger? Message-ID: <1990Mar20.053404.20504@dvinci.usask.ca> Date: 20 Mar 90 05:34:04 GMT References: <9575@wpi.wpi.edu> Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 13