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In article <5762@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>, heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert
Heath) says:
>
>How can I set my dos PATH variable longer than 128 bytes?  I'm running
>DOS 3.3.  It seems when I set my PATH variable in my AUTOEXEC.BAT,
>DOS truncates anything longer than 128 bytes.  Is there a way to do
>this by assigning shorter environment variables and concatenating
>them somehow ? Thanks.
>
>        Robert Heath

     Concatenating variables will *NOT* work at all - the problem is the DOS
limit itself.  DOS does not allow you to enter environment variables that are
longer than 128 characters through DOS.  So you circumvent DOS by writing
directly to the environment space.  This is done by an excellent set of path
utilities that are available on SIMTEL20.  Unforunately, I cannot remember
the name of the file or the author.  However, if you wish them, send me a note
and I will send you the uu/xxencoded .ZIP or .ARC file (tell me which
combination you can handle) of the entire set.  These utilities allow you to
have a path as long as you need (provided your environment space is large
enough), add or delete a particular path from your path list, etc.  For anyone
with a hard disk system, this is a set of utilities you should have.
Simplicity is the order of the day here.
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