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- From: eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Question Concerning PATH Variable
- Message-ID: <713751498snx@tgm.CAM.ORG>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 00:18:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.180735.22655@intelhf.hf.intel.com>
- Organization: SynerLogic
- Lines: 29
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- branch@hfglobe.intel.com writes in article <1992Aug12.180735.22655@intelhf.hf.intel.com>:
- > This question has probably been asked before, but I haven't been able to find
- > an answer. I would like to have a relatively long PATH variable set up for
- > a DOS window running under OS/2 2.0. However, there seems to be a limit of
- > about 80 characters to the PATH variable. Increasing the environment size of
- > the DOS_SHELL does not seem to help. I'm sure that someone must have
- > encountered the same problem. Is there something I'm overlooking???
-
- That's a common DOS limitations, though the limit is 127, not 80. Some
- people on this newsgroup have claimed that the 127 character limitation
- was with the length of command lines, not with the actual environment
- variables. I don't think so, i.e. the following trick does _not_ work:
-
- SET PATH=C:\;....(127 character path)...
- SET PATH=%PATH%;......
-
- I know of some PD programs that allow to fool DOS into accepting longer
- path names, but this does not work with all DOS applications.
-
- > Thanks for your help...
- >
- > Rob Branch
-
- Eric
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- Eric Trepanier
- eric@tgm.CAM.ORG
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