From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Where do I put the lines in my autoexec.bat?
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:48:19 GMT
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:48:19 GMT
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:29:52 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> >> set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\Tyler\Programs\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%
>> 
>> WARNING: This path is dangerously long.  DOS often has trouble
>> handling paths longer than about 64 characters or 8 levels deep.
>
>There are no 8 levels here (I counted 6), so this PATH is safe.

C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\Tyler\Programs\DJGPP\LANG\CXX\STD
or worse yet, the path to the preprocessor and compiler proper:
C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\Tyler\Programs\DJGPPLIB\GCC-LIB\DJGPP\2.952

>Also, this is on Windows, not on DOS, and Windows doesn't have
>the 8-level limitation.

It does when you start Windows in MS-DOS mode (push F8 before the
clouds pop up then choose Command prompt).

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