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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Path cutoffs {Re: Environment size hack in DOS 5?}
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.222633.21015@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Nov12.234502.22273@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov13.191154.16202@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:26:33 GMT
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- In <1992Nov13.191154.16202@ra.msstate.edu> jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John D. Zitterkopf) writes:
-
- >Hi,
- > I have a simuliar problem that might be releated to the previous
- >question. The problem seems to be that When I install new programs on my
- >computer they automaticly add their paths to my path statement in the
- >Autoexec.BAT. Now after adding so many programs and paths to my path
- >statement, the path statement gets cutoff at a certain location 8-(.
- > I think that I have tried a /e or something simulair in my Shell
- >statement to increase the size of ENV. table. But this seems to not
- >correct the problem. Is there a way to correct this other than deleteing
- >some of the old paths?
-
- No. There used to be a hack that let you go in with the Debug editor
- and change this, but I only know of a version of that that worked for
- a special OEM version of DOS (back around 2.x). This is the one great
- MESS I can't believe they didn't fix. I believe that 4DOS will let
- you specify how long you want your path to be.
-
- What I've wound up doing is using SUBST to create 'logical drive
- letters' that point to the root of things like all my Windows
- applications, and then instead of having something like
-
- c:\windows\<app>\bin
-
- in my path, I just put w:\<app>\bin. It doesn't save much per entry,
- but for me it works out to be enough.
-
- --
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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