[arachne] Re: <Alt+E> Problems - Files in body
- From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:28:03 +1030
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:57:40 -0500, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> if I create in environ. path1 and path2
> and path3 with the set command then I can:
> path=%path1%;%path2%;%path3%
> and all those paths are now shown in the environ.
> variable "PATH".
> and any batch file in the new path is searched for
> and run from from any drive and/or directory.
Yes, that will work provided the data from path1, path2 etc
for the PATH command doesn't overflow the command buffer.
With MS-DOS 6.22 the maximum allowable length of a command string
is 127 characters.
If it is any longer, it is truncated after the 127th character
before it is executed.
> I am testing with MSDOS version 7
And how long could you make the PATH variable before it went
wrong?
In MSDOS 7 I found I could enter up to 1023 characters from the
keyboard, or from a batch file, or from env variables, but at
character #1024 it would bomb out and give me the "bad command or
filename" error message.
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