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Re: Problems installing Oracle products. PATH variable too long?

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:33:48 +0200
Message-ID: <e10v0k$k6a$2@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


ginolard_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for the replies but I'm afraid it doesn't help a great deal.
> The problem is that we have quite a lot of Oracle products (BI Tools,
> Warehouse Builder, Designer, Jdeveloper etc) and each of these products
> add their own entries to the PATH variable. Each product is packaged
> for silent installation via our Altiris software distribution system so
> it's not like I can manually change the path for each machine that
> receives the product (that would be over 200 machines!).
>
> I don't MIND the path being longer but I don't understand why there's
> this limitation of 1023 characters.
>
> XP SP2 increases the length of the PATH variable to 2048 chars, that's
> all.
>

Check out the /e flag of your command processor; I used DOS 5 & 6 with an increased environment table of 1, or even 2kB.

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 12:33:48 CDT

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