Re: What is /E on command.com

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From: Michel Behna
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1988 18:40

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From article <1515@puff.cs.wisc.edu>, by schimke@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Timothy Schimke):
> Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but what is the /E
> parameter to command.com.  In addition, are there any other undocumented
> options out there?   Thanx in advance.  (post or mail)
> 
> -- Tim

If I can remember correctly from when I used to MSDOS the /E parameter allows
you to specify how big is your environment space. This is good if you have a 
lot of environment variables but bad if you have a large program because it uses
some of the 640K available for users.

Michel Behna

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