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- From: jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal)
- Subject: Re: Truncated Path. How to increase environment space?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.023831.990@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:38:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.160104.2278@hubcap.clemson.edu> grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy) writes:
- >
- >
- >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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- I have placed a DOS program, sit.com in the file sit2.zip on
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu that can break this 127 character limit. Simply run:
- sit path+=;varlist....
- as many times as necessary to build your DOS path past the 127
- limit. This is a free DOS program that works under OS/2's DOS emulation
-
- John
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