From: Philip de Groot <philipg AT sci DOT kun DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Another tip of the week
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 16:34:08 +0200
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Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> 
> In the spirit of Paul Derbyshire's "tip of the week" idea, here's one
> I just ran across in the Win95 SDK that could be useful for we
> commandline junkies:
> 
> In CONFIG.SYS, you can expand the DOS commandline length to 255 bytes
> by using the following parameter to command.com:
> 
> shell=c:\windows\command.com /u:255
> 
> This is documented on page 687 of the MS Win95 Resource Kit from
> Microsoft Press, under the heading "Creating Long Filenames at the
> MS-DOS Prompt".
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)

This is a useful tip. Thanks!