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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Dennis Pantazis wrote: > reinstall Warp, I tried to run chkdsk, and it tells me that my path is > too long. Even though I uninstalled Warp with the included icon/program > > c:\os2\archives\desktop................. > some really long path, its grievanve is that it is longer than 67 chars. This silly limit was a DOS problem. Sounds like Microsoft hasn't updated their chkdsk code so the path variable can handle more than 67 bytes. > Huh? > > my current path is: > > path=c:\; c:\dos;c:\windows;c:\util;c:\util\pkware Did you get this from your autoexec.bat or from the 'path' command? Type 'path' at the DOS prompt and it should show you the currently active path. > I do not understand where chkdsk gets this path. Any batch file can add to the path. Heck, you can do it from the command line with the set command. -- John H. Kim "Just try telling the IRS you don't feel like jokim@mit.edu 'contributing' this year come April." -- Bob Dole jokim@tuna.mit.edu on Bill Clinton's avoidance of the word 'taxes'