Re: chkdsk /f on triple boot 701C

["John H. Kim" <jokim@tuna.mit.edu>]

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.
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