howell@bashful.cs.unc.edu (William Howell) (11/21/88)
I have a recollection that this was previously discussed here, which if it was I regret cluttering the network with a repeat of it. However, I am in need of how to set long Paths in DOS. I am running DOS 3.3, and have been able to set paths in the range of 125 characters or so. I have played around with the SHELL command and the /E parameter, but I've only been able to expand it by a character or two this way it seems. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ---------- William Howell <howell@cs.unc.edu> University of North Carolina Director Computer Services Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 Computer Science Department 919-962-1759
syrbz@warwick.ac.uk (J D Mulberg) (11/29/88)
In article <5449@thorin.cs.unc.edu> howell@bashful.cs.unc.edu (William Howell) writes: >I have a recollection that this was previously discussed here, >which if it was I regret cluttering the network with a repeat >of it. However, I am in need of how to set long Paths in DOS. You could consider using the SUBST command in DOS, which would cut down on the length of path strings considerably. Jon Mulberg, Go placidly amidst the Warwick University noise and haste ... -- UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!syrbz PHONE: +44 203 523523 JANET: syrbz@uk.ac.warwick.daisy ARPA: syrbz@daisy.warwick.ac.uk
simrin@mis.ucsf.edu (Steve Simrin) (12/03/88)
You can do it with DOS 3.3 by appending to the existing path as follows: set path=%path%;NEWPATH where NEWPATH is what you append to the old path. The only limitation is the size of your environment which can be set with COMMAND. Steve Simrin