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- DESQview Technical Note
-
- Long Paths and DESQview
-
- Dear User,
-
- From and examination of your problem report, it is apparent that
- the problem may be related to the setting of a very long path in
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- All versions of DESQview prior to 2.2 use standard DOS functions
- to append the DESQview subdirectory to the DOS path. DESQview in
- effect "types" the path in and appends the DESQview directory.
- If your path approaches the DOS limit of 128 characters, DESQview
- cannot properly append it's own subdirectory and this will cause
- proper subdirectory access to fail in DESQview.
-
- An additional symptom of this is that often the DESQview DOS
- Services program will not be able to properly establish its menu.
-
- If you are running a long path, try to shorten it. Typically we
- find many users have quite a few subdirectories in there path
- that serve no particular purpose. If you have included the
- DESQview subdirectory in your AUTOEXEC.BAT Path, you should
- remove it since DESQview likes to establish this itself.
-
- DESQview version 2.2 uses another method of appending the
- DESQview subdirectory to the path, so if you find it difficult to
- modify your path to make it shorter, upgrading could be a
- solution.
-
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