msc 3.0

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From: Jim Curl
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1986 17:09

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I recently implemented a patch to command.com in DOS 3.1 to enlarge the
environment space (the shell command method didn't work??).  I really needed
to do this because the paths in my environment variables had to be limited
and the drive specifications left out because the environment was full.

Upon implementing the change, I happily added paths to the INCLUDE environment
variable for MSC 3.00 only to discover that it caused the error

          Command line error: argument list for `p0.exe' too big

Apparently the INCLUDE variable is included in the total 128 characters allowed
as part of the command line.  I wasn't able to account for all 128, though.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Is there an easy way around it?

                                               -- Jim Curl
                                               -- San Jose

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Subject: msc 3.0
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 12:09:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 12:09:27 1986
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Organization: Watkins Johnson Co., San Jose Ca. USA
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