Re: Environment problems

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From: Jim Dell
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 22:33

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In article <16558@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> larsen@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Scott Larsen) w
>I recently changed my autoexec file to set a few more environment var's,
>and now I get the message:
>
>Out of environment space
>
>Does this mean I cannot set anymore environment variables?  Is there a way
>to get around this? 
>
Enter the following in your 
Config.sys file

shell = c:\command.com /e:256 /p

The e: parameter tells DOS how much to allocate, in this case 256 bytes

Hope this helps

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From: dell@pmday_1.Dayton.NCR.COM (Jim Dell)
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Subject: Re: Environment problems
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Date: 8 Mar 90 22:33:58 GMT
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