[arachne] Re: <Alt+E> Problems - Files in body
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:01:41 -0500
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Hi Gregy,
All you say may be right re: PATH.
I don't have time to test it any further right now.
I did try it out before and it seemed to go longer
than 127 characters in M$6.20. I didn't try past
about 300 characters in M$7.0. I repeat again,
the path statement is very tricky in my experience.
It is definitely different in M$6.20 and M$7.0.
In addition it will not accept %xxx% envir. var. from
the command line in M$6.20. It obviously works
differently in different DOS versions and if one
uses it then one must make sure he has it set
up correctly for his DOS version.
In M$7.0 the cmnd. line will only accept about 127
characters. But the path statement can be made
longer (you say 1023 chctrs.) by the methods
previously shown by several listers.
BTW, thanks for the PUSHPOP.ZIP . There seem
to be several different versions floating around.
Eric
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:28:03 +1030 "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> 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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>
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