Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-04 Thread Bret Johnson
Should anyone care (mostly I think it would be the "power users"), I've taken most of these suggestions and combined them together to take them to an even higher level. On the same machine, I can get into DOS several different ways. I can boot straight to DOS, and even have several different m

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Miguel Garza 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];\APP

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Miguel Garza 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\NEWP

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Evans
Or try runme.bat path program.exe Echo off Cd %1 %2 :exit On Sunday, November 3, 2013, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:38: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Miguel Garza
Thanks to you both! On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Matej Horvat wrote: > On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:57:50 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > An alternative solution would be to write an individual > > batchfile for each program you'd like to run, and place these batchfiles > > somewhere in C:\DOS or

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:57:50 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > An alternative solution would be to write an individual > batchfile for each program you'd like to run, and place these batchfiles > somewhere in C:\DOS or so. > > @echo off > C: > CD \ > CD PROGRAMS > CD APPS > CD MYPROG > MYPROG.EXE > CD

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:38: > 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? Perhaps MSDOS or 4DOS allowed longer paths

[Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Miguel Garza
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