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Article #43681Re: Environment problems
From: Richard Stanton
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 18:38
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 18:38
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In article <16558@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, larsen@mist.cs.orst.edu (Scott Larsen) writes: >I recently changed my autoexec file to set a few more environment var's, >and now I get the message: > >Out of environment space > In your CONFIG.SYS file, put the line: SHELL=c:\command.com /p /E:2048 or similar, where you should use the correct path for your system, (note that if it is not in the root directory, DOS will set COMSPEC to the correct disk, but not to the right path, so you may have to set this manually). the /E parameter says how much space (in bytes) should be used for the environment (I believe that for MD-DOS <=3.1 or thereabouts, the number was a number of paragraphs, but the above is definitely true for 3.3 and above). Richard Stanton
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!shelby!lindy!news From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Environment problems Message-ID: <8377@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Date: 7 Mar 90 18:38:58 GMT Sender: news@lindy.Stanford.EDU (News Service) Distribution: usa Lines: 22