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Is there a small limit for PATH
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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>>Not that I've seen, but you may be getting caught by things like spaces in paths that aren't quote-encapsulated, especially if you use macro-expansion to do SET PATH.
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>Hi Ed,
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>I just happened to be reading about SET PATH in the hacker's guide and it says you don't need to '' around paths with spaces.
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>Did I mis-understand something?

No, but I've not gotten in trouble when I've used them, and the VFP line parser has gotten confused by spaces before in macro expansions.
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