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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 2:39:22 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:
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> 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).
IIRC its the same DOS version with W98 and 98SE.
> There is, however, a couple of workarounds, using
> SUBST and APPEND, of which some explanation
Yes, I remember using SUBST at one time, but there are some traps to its
use that I can't remember the details of, and I gave it up.
As it is, my PATH variable has never needed to be longer than about 50
or so characters.
. ,-./\
. / \ from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
. \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 34:55 S 138:36 E
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