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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!bcm!lib!sphm42.sph.uth.tmc.edu!sph0301
  2. From: sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu (Kate Wilson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
  4. Subject: Re: DOS environment variables > 128 chars ?
  5. Keywords: environment variable DOS MS-DOS
  6. Message-ID: <sph0301.50.714596778@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu>
  7. Date: 23 Aug 1992 19:06:18 GMT
  8. References: <1992Aug22.005943.26092@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
  9. Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu
  10. Organization: Univ. of Texas School of Public Health
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  14. In article <1992Aug22.005943.26092@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> dcdeno@bellini.berkeley.edu (D. Curtis Deno) writes:
  15. >I would appreciate your suggestions on the matter of environment variables
  16. >whose length exceeds the 128 (127?) character limit.
  17. [stuff deleted]
  18. >  Is NDOS or 4DOS or xxx superior in this respect?
  19.  
  20. 4DOS will allow a command line up to 255 characters.
  21.