Re: Environment size hack in DOS 5?

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From: Thomas Dillman
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:28

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>In article <1992Nov12.234502.22273@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
>>BTW, patching COMMAND.COM *is* the only correct solution.  CONFIG.SYS
>>only affects the first loaded copy of COMMAND.COM.  Further, there are
>>various kludge solutions floating around, e.g., ENV.ARC (from 1988 [!]) in
>>MSDOS.SYSUTL on Simtel, et al, but I am not interested in kludge solutions.
> 
As an alternative 4DOS can be configured to create at least X bytes of 
environment space in any sub-shells.

Thomas J. Dillman

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From: dillman@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas Dillman)
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Subject: Re: Environment size hack in DOS 5?
Summary: Don't tell me about SHELL= in CONFIG.SYS!
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