>>AFAIK, SET PROC command has a limit of 254 or 255 characters. Maybe you have a huge SET PROC ?
>>Or did you forget to use the ADDITIVE clause, to make it keep the old settings ?
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>254 is the limit for a single string literal. I've had a big set procedure in some apps, over 30 lines of set ... additive, and it worked without a problem.
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>Maybe having a long path at runtime is what's slowing it down?

Having a nonexistent directory in the path can make a system really sloooooow.