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Article #9687Re: Environment variable space on 386
From: Mike Wood
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 18:57
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 18:57
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In article <94167@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, debbie@das (Debbie Callahan) writes:
>
>My boss has a 386 clone running DOS 3.30. He has about 10 environment
>variables that he wants to set in autoexec.bat, but when he does this
>he sometimes gets an error message about not enough environment space
>and some applications act strange. Is there a way to increase the
>amount of environment space?
>
>Please respond by mail if possible.
>Debbie Callahan debbie@das.llnl.gov or debbie@[128.115.41.1]
I had the same problem with some of my "power users" (or so they think) - I
found that by including the following as the last statement of the config.sys
did the trick:
shell=c:\command.com c:\dos /e:256 /p
The /e switch is the important part, as it is what redefines the environment
area of dos. I think I found this trick on this group.
Mike 8)
Mike Wood
MWOOD@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU!MWOOD From: mwood@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Mike Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Environment variable space on 386 Message-ID: <1991May03.185706.20725@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 3 May 91 18:57:06 GMT References: <94167@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Reply-To: mwood@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 22