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Re: Out of environment

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From: Timo Salmi
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 1991 11:21
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In article <1991Jan07.071503.319@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> mcgredo@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Don McGregor) writes:
>
>OK, this is probably an easy one for you guys.  I'm getting an "out of
>environment" error when I attempt to run a batch program that sets
>a few environment variables and then runs a program.  I've got the
>SHELL command in config.sys set to allocate 1024 of environment
>for DOS 3.30. A SET command shows that about 370 bytes of space is
>taken up by the actual environment variables and their values.
>
>Deleting a few extraneous environment variables doesn't seem to 
>work at all--the new EVs seem to get cut off in exactly the same place.
>Upping the SHELL environment space doesn't seem to work either.
:

Are you quite sure your format of the shell command in config.sys is
correct:
   shell=c:\dos\command.com /e:2048 /p

>Please reply by email, I don't follow this group regularly...

If you care to post to a group, you should also care to follow it. 

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Subject: Re: Out of environment
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Date: 7 Jan 91 11:21:07 GMT
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