[arachne] Re: <Alt+E> Problems - Files in body
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:09:10 -0500
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Hi Wiz,
I rcvd. a "Hi" from some Zena Whatsit
with an attachment for Pills of some kind.....was
that the infected e-mail? I just read it in Arachne
and then deleted it. I didn't scan it.
Eric
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 2:39:22 -0600 Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
<wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> Hiya Gang!
> Greg is correct about the length limits...BUT, my
> path is nowhere near 1023 characters in MS DOS 7
> (that's the DOS with Windows 95 A (OSR1).
> There is, however, a couple of workarounds, using
> SUBST and APPEND, of which some explanation
> is included in the HELP files for DOS in MS versions
> 6 and later, IIRC. At command prompt type
> help path
> then press the enter key for some explanations, then
> press CTRL+C for contents and look at the related
> commands SUBST and APPEND.
> C U L8R!
> Wiz<{;-)
>
> ps---did anyone on the Coollists group recieve a
> message with a PIF attached? If you did, DO NOT
> OPEN THIS FILE IN A WINDOWS 9X or LATER
> operating system! I recieved one and as per normal
> routine I put it in "quarantine", and scanned it with
> F-Prot. It contains a virus. One of the list members
> possibly is infected, but more likely the message
> headers are forged.
> <{;-)
> At 11/28/06 11:28:00 AM, you wrote:
> >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.
> > Arachne at FreeLists
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> >
> >
> Wizard57M
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>
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