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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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:11:19 GMT
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:28:53 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 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
>These two are exactly 8, so they are still safe.

Sorry, I made a typo in the second one.  Fixing it (insert \ between
DJGPP and LIB) brings it to 9 levels.

OK, so it's fixed in OSR2 and Windows 98.  But isn't there a
64 character limit too?

C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\Tyler\Programs\DJGPP\LIB\GCC-LIB\DJGPP\2.952\CC1.EXE
0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123

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