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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!judie
- From: judie@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Longer Path?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.100159.10701@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 10:01:59 +1200
- References: <1685C7CB4.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1685C7CB4.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
- > I know there is way of tricking DOS into allowing a path of more than 80
- > characters (or whatever the limit is)--something like substituting in some
- > variables. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone would mail me how to do
- > this, or post it if it's not an already overdone question.
-
- The maximum is 127 characters according to my manual. I think there is some
- method using variables but I just use the APPEND command with the /X:ON switch,
- so that the extra directories are searched, and it works just fine.
-
- Two lines similar to the following live in my AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- PATH all those directory names that will fit into 127 chars
- APPEND the rest /X:ON
-
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- Judie Wert Scheurich
- Uni of Waikato, N.Z (that little cluster of islands off Tasmania)
-