NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/apps/6120

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From: [e-mail] (David Ebdon)
Subject: Re: Truncated Path.  How to increase environment space?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:32:37 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Ebdon) writes:
>I recently added additional directories to the middle of my path statement
>in the autoexec.bat file.  When some of my apps failed to run (system
>couldn't find them), I checked the path and found that the directories on
>the end of the path had been lost.  I assumed I needed to increase my
>environment space and therefore added /E:1024 to the shell=command.com
>statement in config.sys and rebooted.  This change had no effect.  So how
>does one increase the DOS environment under OS/2?

It appears I will answer my own question.  One does increase the
environment space as above.  The problem is that the path statement is
limited to 121 characters, including "path=".  In DOS 5.0, one can use the
APPEND statement with the /x:on switch to increase the effective path, but
this switch is not recognized by OS/2's APPEND.  The only way to add more
directories to one's path seems to be use shorter directory names and/or
throw away some less used directories.  Surely it is not too much to ask
for IBM to allow a little more room for the path in such a gargantuan
operating system as OS/2!  Dear IBM...



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David Ebdon
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Eastern Illinois University
[e-mail]