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Article #626Re: Zenith '286 DOS question: Changing environment space.
From: Andrew Pitonyak
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 00:45
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 00:45
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In article <MCGLK.91May9191425@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> mcglk@cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes: >Once again, the occasional quirkiness of the Zenith software strikes. I need >to define just a couple more eensy-weensy environment variables, and I've got >the deadly "Out of environment space" message. And yet, when I use the >standard MS-DOS way of changing that environment space, it don't work. How >*does* one tell the Zenith to (say) allocate 4K for the environment space? I don't believe that this is anything but standard DOS but this works on my Zenith with dos 4.01 SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:1024 In my config.sys file does the trick. You can change the 1024 to however much space you want to allocate. Hope this helps. Andy
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mostaccioli.cis.ohio-state.edu!pitonyak From: pitonyak@mostaccioli.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Pitonyak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith Subject: Re: Zenith '286 DOS question: Changing environment space. Message-ID: <119523@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 May 91 00:45:44 GMT References: <MCGLK.91May9191425@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: usa Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 17