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Re: Environment size in a DOS shell

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From: SUTHERLAND
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 18:03
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In article <1990Oct2.133952.5198@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, gene@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Gene E. Johannsen) writes...
>I would like an environment larger than 160 bytes in a DOS shell, but I haven't
>been able to figure out how to make it work.
> 
>Does anyone know?
> 
>gene

Check out the CONFIG.SYS command SHELL as in:

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:256 /P

Marshall  (dwatney@pine.circa.ufl.edu)
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