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DESQview Technical Note
Long Paths and DESQview
Dear User,
From and examination of your problem report, it is apparent that
the problem may be related to the setting of a very long path in
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
All versions of DESQview prior to 2.2 use standard DOS functions
to append the DESQview subdirectory to the DOS path. DESQview in
effect "types" the path in and appends the DESQview directory.
If your path approaches the DOS limit of 128 characters, DESQview
cannot properly append it's own subdirectory and this will cause
proper subdirectory access to fail in DESQview.
An additional symptom of this is that often the DESQview DOS
Services program will not be able to properly establish its menu.
If you are running a long path, try to shorten it. Typically we
find many users have quite a few subdirectories in there path
that serve no particular purpose. If you have included the
DESQview subdirectory in your AUTOEXEC.BAT Path, you should
remove it since DESQview likes to establish this itself.
DESQview version 2.2 uses another method of appending the
DESQview subdirectory to the path, so if you find it difficult to
modify your path to make it shorter, upgrading could be a
solution.
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