Forgot to mention: adding the path to 32- or 64-bit ooRexx manually to the
registry Path entry
works, even with Path strings larger than 1024.
---rony
On 03.04.2013 20:44, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> it seems that the PATH environment variable on that particular laptop may be
> too large!
>
> Researching a bit the maximum size of an environment variable seems to
> indicate that by default
> there is a Windows limit of 1024 (which includes \0) bytes!
>
> The Lenovo Thinkpad's PATH environment variable is polluted by Intel' paths
> for whatever
> (unorganized) utilities they (or Lenovo) have installed on that laptop, such
> that its PATH
> environment variable value is larger than 1024 bytes!
>
> After removing entries on the PATH environment variables, such that the
> length dropped well under
> 1024, I became able to install the 32 and 64 bit versions of ooRexx without a
> problem!
>
> ----
>
> Here is one link where a possible solution (setting the Path registry entry)
> for enlarging the
> size:
> <http://superuser.com/questions/387619/overcoming-the-1024-character-limit-with-setx>,
> which
> I found via googling "windows 7 path environment variable exceeds the
> maximum".
>
> Although a KB article (<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830473>) talks about
> a limit of 2048 or
> 8192, depending on the system, this seems to not apply to this scenario.
>
> HTH,
>
> ---rony
>
> P.S.: There is yet another problem I have stumbled over which I will report
> in a separate e-mail.
>
>
>
>
> On 02.04.2013 23:01, Rony G Flatscher wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> thank you very much for this hint. Will look at it tomorrow (when back in
>> the office) and repot back.
>>
>> ---rony
>>
>> Rony G. Flatscher (mobil/e)
>>
>> Am 02.04.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:miesf...@gmail.com>>:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at
>>> <mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> just wondering if anyone else got problems installing ooRexx 4.1.2 in
>>> 32 or 64 bits on a
>>> German Windows 7 Professional version with Service Pack 1 applied:
>>>
>>>
>>> There have not been any reports of this.
>>>
>>>
>>> * The installer is not able to set the value of the PATH environment
>>> variable ("There was
>>> a problem reading the current value of PATH. You will need to set
>>> the PATH environment
>>> variable manually."
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a limit to the length of a string in the NSIS installer. If your
>>> current path is
>>> longer than this length, then you can get this message. If the installer
>>> were to attempt to
>>> update the path, it would truncate it. Resulting in havoc on your system.
>>>
>>> Redirect your path into a file and check the length.
>>>
>>> set path > myPath.tx
>>>
>>> I forget the length off the top of my head but it is probably 1024 or maybe
>>> 2048.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark Miesfeld
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