Hi, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Miguel Garza <garz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've got my programs in subdirectories of C:\APPS, and whenever I add a new > program, I have to add its path to autoexec.bat like so: > > set PATH=.;c:\;\LOCALE;\APPS;[all the other paths to the other programs in > the APPS folder];\APPS\NEWPROG > > But now FDOS is telling me my PATH is too long and PATH isn't working. So I > took some of the paths off the end that I just added, and now PATH is > parsed. But is there any way I can have more paths in my PATH?
AFAIK, the %PATH% can (normally) only be 128 bytes or less. This is also part of the overall environment limit (but what is default for FreeCOM, /E:256 ??). There are possible partial workarounds that extend it to 255 or such (e.g. 4DOS or Win9x via %CMDLINE%), I think, but I've never messed with them much, so I don't know the details. Other OSes have similar cmdline limits (e.g. 1000 or 8000, dunno) but hide it better. DJGPP just uses response files (esp. behind the scenes) to get approx. 12000 since so many Linux progs assume virtually unlimited and try to cram too much raw info there (IMO). Anyways, what nobody mentioned so far is SUBST, which is "probably" the solution you're looking for. But again, like they said, you really shouldn't have a hard need for literally everything in your %PATH%, only those that you use often. In fact, it's best to keep it fairly minimal by default in order to avoid clashes with similarly-named (but functionally different) utils. As mentioned, using .BATs to temporarily enable and disable various setups is a better way. http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/swsubst.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
