Batch files and environment space

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From: Crash Gordon
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 1990 18:55

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>Author: [Donald J Roufa]
>Windows ver. 3 spawns a shell with only 160 bytes of environment
>Isn't there some way to tell Windows to run batch files with more
>environment space available to them?

Not that I'm aware of.  (I'm no expert!)  But what I do is set an
environment variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT, that is just filler.  Then I can clear
this one to free up environment space in Windows.

SET DUMMY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX...

You get the picture...

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Gordon S. Hlavenka            cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
Disclaimer:                Yeah, I said it.  So what?

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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon)
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Subject: Batch files and environment space
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Date: 26 Dec 90 18:55:03 GMT
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