Re: PATH length limit on windows
- From: Jason Heinrich <jheinrichdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, rafiq9857@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:37:40 -0600
While the end of a short file name is often "~1", it could be another number
if there is more than one file in the directory that has the same first six
letters in its name. Do a "dir /X" to verify the actual short file names.
--
Jason Heinrich
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:16 AM, M Rafiq <rafiq9857@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Vishal,
>
> Although I have not aware of any such solution like that but it is time to
> clean your path.
> You may use ~ after every 6 character in your path variable for longer path
> name.
> It will reduce your path size.
>
> You may see the following guidelines which may help. I encountered this
> issue when I was installing Oracle10g agent on Windows server. It is good
> fix. In my case it was HP openview which was generating very large path.
>
> Regards
> Rafiq
>
> QUOTE
> ANSWER
> =======
> Sorry for the inconvenience, no fix for the character limit in the PATH
> variable. But, a workaround would be to edit or temporarily remove some
> entries.
> Here's an example you can use. If you start with something like this as a
> single entry in PATH:
> C:\Program Files\Winterbourn
> you can edit it and shorten it like this:
> C:\Progra~1\Winter~1
> and it will still function normally.
> If you want, copy your current PATH and remove enough entries so that
> Oracle
> can finish. Then you can do what editing you need to do to get everything
> in under the 1023 character limit.
> UNQUOTE
>
>
> > From: vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: PATH length limit on windows
> > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:12:45 +0000
>
> >
> > I am yring to install all versions of oracle 9i, 10g and 11g on a
> > windows machine. This to compare diferrences between various parameter
> > (hidden and non-hidden) and other diferences between different
> > releases and patchsets. But I hit the problem of 1024 limit of path
> > variable value on windows. I know there is a hotfox to increase this
> > to 2048 characters. But still with so many versions on same it's quite
> > easy to hit that limit too.
> >
> > One could try clearing the path all together and run a environment
> > setting batch script to clear the path variable and set it only with
> > the version you are working with. Does anyone has any better way of
> > doing this?
> >
> > I am lazy and was thinking of using windows select oracle home shortcut.
> >
> > Does anyone has any better way of doing this?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vishal Gupta
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> >
> >
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