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- From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Environment space, Path
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.044915.26229@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 04:49:15 GMT
- References: <By73nD.B97@rice.edu>
- Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
- Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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- From article <By73nD.B97@rice.edu>, by rbook@owlnet.rice.edu
- (Robert Aaron Book):
- > When I set my PATH in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file, the actual
- > PATH variable displayed when typing SET does not have all the
- > directories listed. I think this is because of limited environment
- > space, so I used the "SHELL=" line in CONFIG.SYS to make the
- > environment space bigger (with the /e option of COMMAND.COM).
- >
- > This did not work. How can I fix this?
- >
- > --Robert Book
-
- Hmm. Perhaps your PATH= line in AUTOEXEC.BAT is too long; DOS limits
- the number of characters that can be entered in one command to 127.
- If this is the case, you can use SUBST to equate paths with logical
- drive letters, making the PATH command just a list of letters that
- have been defined by earlier SUBST commands.
-
- --
-
- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona
- sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
-