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Re: Environment size hack in DOS 5?

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From: Harald Milz
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:15
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|> In article <1992Nov12.234502.22273@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
|> <Raising the environment size>
|> >
|> >I have spent fruitless hours perusing the DOS 5 COMMAND.COM, and have
|> >not been able to solve this problem.  (I did it originally on a version
|> >of DOS 3.3, long ago, in a couple of hours, so I know it should not be
|> >that hard).  I have also spent time on DR DOS 6.0, with the same dismal
|> >results.  I have also perused the usual gang of archive sites, and have
|> >not found anything.  So, my question to the net is, "Does anyone know
|> >the magic patch locations for DOS 5.0?"
|> 

Do you want to change the maximum env size to more than 32 KB? 
What for?


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Subject: Re: Environment size hack in DOS 5?
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