RE: Problems installing Visual Age for Java on a Win98 machine

Sounds like some environment variable is exceeding 255 characters or you've
exceeded the limit on your environment space.  The path is a system defined
environment variable.  

Go to a DOS session and use the "set" command.  This will show you the
contents of all your environment variables.  I kind of doubt that you're
overflowing your environment space.  I'm pretty sure it defaults to 1024
bytes.  I can't remember how you enlarge your environment in win/95 or 98.
The last time I worried about environment size was under DOS 3.3.

IBM pc software is nearly the only windows software that uses the path
statement for much of anything.  They didn't really need to, they just did.
Most win 95 or 98 software will run fine without anything in autoexec.bat or
config.sys.  I think Microsoft retained them only for backward
compatibility.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Silvers [mailto:msilvers@hbs-inc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 10:49 AM
> To: java400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Problems installing Visual Age for Java on a Win98 machine
> 
> 
> Ah, my first question to the list.  I am new to Java (obviously by the
> question) and I am having a problem loading the IBM Visual 
> Age for Java on
> my PC.  The problem is that I get an error in the beginning 
> that says there
> is a maximum of 255 characters permitted.  I read the readme 
> enclosed with
> the CD.  The readme said that there is a problem in the 
> autoexec.bat file on
> Win95 machines with the Path statement.  My Path statement 
> does not have 255
> characters in the string.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike Silvers
> 
> 
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