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- From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
- Subject: Re: Truncated Path. How to increase environment space?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.160104.2278@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <1992Sep13.021442.38549@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1992Sep13.213237.61903@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:01:04 GMT
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- cfdwe@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (David Ebdon) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep13.021442.38549@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfdwe@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (David Ebdon) writes:
-
- >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...
-
- The OS/2 path can be quite long, but the path your dos boxes see is
- still a DOS path, and is limited to 120-odd characters. I suggest you
- run a batch file at the beginning of your DOS box startup that does
- SUBST commands and builds your DOS path from those.
-
- Mike Percy | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu | I don't know about
- Sr. Systems Analyst | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
- Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET | is really...bossy.
- Clemson University | (803) 656-3780 | (Laurie Anderson)
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