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In my system environment variables the "path" is set to %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot% immediately followed by a series of user defined paths at the end.
The problem is that when I call certain batch files from old Cobol EXEs, the path seems to get truncated (i echoed the path to a text file during the code run). The batch file also is losing sight of the \winnt\system32 directory, eventhough it is the first value within the "path" variable.
There is no path set in the autoexec.nt / autoexec.bat, and even when I tried different permutations using these with the path in the environment variable it didn't make any difference.
Moving the %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot% to the end of the system variable (i.e. after the user defined path rather than at the beginning) seems to relocate the system directories, but the path is still being truncated.
Can somebody tell me can the system environment variable be extended / is this a known problem / what is happening etc?
Thanks
Mike
The problem is that when I call certain batch files from old Cobol EXEs, the path seems to get truncated (i echoed the path to a text file during the code run). The batch file also is losing sight of the \winnt\system32 directory, eventhough it is the first value within the "path" variable.
There is no path set in the autoexec.nt / autoexec.bat, and even when I tried different permutations using these with the path in the environment variable it didn't make any difference.
Moving the %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot% to the end of the system variable (i.e. after the user defined path rather than at the beginning) seems to relocate the system directories, but the path is still being truncated.
Can somebody tell me can the system environment variable be extended / is this a known problem / what is happening etc?
Thanks
Mike