From:	"Peter Cassidy" <peter DOT cassidy DOT ps AT rocksoft DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: DOS 8 levels deep workaround?
Date:	Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:33:57 +0930
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> It's a basic limitation of DOS.  The only workaround is to use SUBST to
> create a drive letter every 8 levels of subdirectories, so that each
> d:/foo/bar path is never longer than 8 levels.

How can I do this inside an application? i.e. what is the 'system call' that
implements SUBST?

Thanks,

Peter

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