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- From: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Problems with SMARTDRIVE and PATH
- Message-ID: <4948@wet.UUCP>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 03:15:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.141229.46263@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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- rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >
- >2. I have aproblem with the path statement of dos.
- >If I type the following statement in the dos prompt
- >PATH = C:\DOS; C:\WINDOWS; C:\STACKER;
- >in capital letters it works but if I put it in a batch file such as the
- >autoexec.bat file it tells me "Too many parameters". Does anybody have any
- >ideas as to what the problem might be?
-
- First, ditch the spaces. Second, leave off the last semicolon; you only
- need it between paths, not after each path. Case should be irrelevant; DOS
- shifts everything to upper case before parsing it.
-
- Try this:
-
- Path=C:\DOS;C:\Windows;C:\Stacker
-
- Good Luck.
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