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Article #43Re: Help increasing environment space (DOS 5.0)
From: Stephen Matheson
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 22:37
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 22:37
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From article <BwuME6.93G@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, by dp35@mc1adm.UWaterloo.ca (Greg Moore): > How can I increase my environment space? I have lots of 'SET' statements, > a long path, and other shtuff in there too. > DOS 5.0 Add (or modify) the following line in config.sys: shell=[path]command.com /e:nnn /p where [path] is the path to command.com (probably c:\dos), and 160 < nnn < 32,768. Default is 256. For temporary relief, you can type at the DOS prompt: [path]command.com /e:nnn To learn more, I *highly* recommend "DOS 5 Techniques and Utilities" by PC Magazine's Jeff Prosise. I learned more in a few hours with that book than in 7 years of tinkering. Also the July 1992 issue of PC Mag had 2 nice pieces by Prosise dealing with optimizing configurations. Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!news From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Help increasing environment space (DOS 5.0) Message-ID: <1992Oct28.223751.25073@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> Date: 28 Oct 92 22:37:51 GMT References: <BwuME6.93G@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group Lines: 24