coleman@lll-lcc.UUCP (Sam Coleman) (07/29/89)
If you replace your COMMAND.COM with a shareware product called 4DOS, you can use DOS commands, including environment variables like PATH, up to 255 characters long. It has a lot of other nice goodies as well, making it well worth the shareware cost of $50. Grab a trial copy off of a BBS or write to: J. P. Software P. O. Box 1470 E. Arlington, MA 02174 (617) 646-3975 Sam Coleman coleman@lll-lcc.llnl.gov No connection to company mentioned. Just a happy user.
Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (07/29/89)
In article <2560@lll-lcc.UUCP>, coleman@lll-lcc.UUCP (Sam Coleman) wrote: }If you replace your COMMAND.COM with a shareware product called 4DOS, }you can use DOS commands, including environment variables like PATH, }up to 255 characters long. It has a lot of other nice goodies as Yes, you can have a line of 255 characters, but you still can't pass a command tail of more than 126 characters to any program. That is a hard limit imposed by the static allocation for the command tail (1 byte for the length, 127 bytes for the actual tail followed by a CR) in the PSP. Thus, 4DOS truncates the command tail when invoking an external program. SET and PATH are internal commands, so 4DOS can indeed set paths longer than 126 characters. -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=-=-=- Voice: (412) 268-3053 (school) ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 FAX: available on request Disclaimer? I claimed something? "I don't want to sound like I'm avoiding answering your question; I just want to avoid answering your question." -- Alan Demers