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by shortrounddev 1141 days ago
The PATH variable in windows has a low character limit but if your path is properly set up as a REG_EXPAND_SZ, then you can just add more and more variables to it and I dont think the expanded version counts toward the character limit. One reason you shouldn't save your path variable changes from your terminal is that it implicitly converts to REG_SZ on save
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Yeah, that is what I do. It seems really sloppy though, a tactic for dealing with poor design