Re: PATH length limit on windows

From: Jason Heinrich <jheinrichdba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:37:40 -0600
Message-ID: <b32e774d0902260837x32ac98adv3616ae7120cd420a_at_mail.gmail.com>

While the end of a short file name is often "~1", it could be another number if there is more than one file in the directory that has the same first six letters in its name. Do a "dir /X" to verify the actual short file names.

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Jason Heinrich


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:16 AM, M Rafiq <rafiq9857_at_hotmail.com> wrote:



>  Vishal,

>

> Although I have not aware of any such solution like that but it is time to

> clean your path.

> You may use ~ after every 6 character in your path variable for longer path

> name.

> It will reduce your path size.

>

> You may see the following guidelines which may help. I encountered this

> issue when I was installing Oracle10g agent on Windows server. It is good

> fix. In my case it was HP openview which was generating very large path.

>

> Regards

> Rafiq

>

> QUOTE

> ANSWER

> =======

> Sorry for the inconvenience, no fix for the character limit in the PATH

> variable. But, a workaround would be to edit or temporarily remove some

> entries.

> Here's an example you can use. If you start with something like this as a

> single entry in PATH:

> C:\Program Files\Winterbourn

> you can edit it and shorten it like this:

> C:\Progra~1\Winter~1

> and it will still function normally.

> If you want, copy your current PATH and remove enough entries so that

> Oracle

> can finish. Then you can do what editing you need to do to get everything

> in under the 1023 character limit.

> UNQUOTE

>

>

> > From: vishal_at_vishalgupta.com

> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org

> > Subject: PATH length limit on windows

> > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:12:45 +0000

>

> >

> > I am yring to install all versions of oracle 9i, 10g and 11g on a

> > windows machine. This to compare diferrences between various parameter

> > (hidden and non-hidden) and other diferences between different

> > releases and patchsets. But I hit the problem of 1024 limit of path

> > variable value on windows. I know there is a hotfox to increase this

> > to 2048 characters. But still with so many versions on same it's quite

> > easy to hit that limit too.

> >

> > One could try clearing the path all together and run a environment

> > setting batch script to clear the path variable and set it only with

> > the version you are working with. Does anyone has any better way of

> > doing this?

> >

> > I am lazy and was thinking of using windows select oracle home shortcut.

> >

> > Does anyone has any better way of doing this?

> >

> >

> > Cheers,

> > Vishal Gupta

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> >

> >

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