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From: hari@soleil.UUCP (Srihari Kotcherlakota)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.30 PATH and Environment lengths
Summary: What is the meaning of "shell=..." in config.sys?
Keywords: Please HELP: What's wrong with this picture?
Message-ID: <756@soleil.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 17:26:17 GMT
References: <3695@i.sei.cmu.edu> <2811@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Somerville, NJ
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In article <2811@ndsuvax.UUCP>, nebezene@ndsuvax.UUCP (Todd M. Bezenek KO0N) writes:
> In article <3695@i.sei.cmu.edu> gjp@sei.cmu.edu (George Pandelios) writes:
> >Greetings Netlanders!
> >
> >I'm having trouble setting my PATH to a length larger than an small 
> >(127?) number of characters.
> 
> Try putting a "shell=..." into your config.sys.  This will start
> a new shell (in your case DOS).  With this new DOS shell, you can
> specify the environment size with the /e option.
> 
> --
> Todd Michael Bezenek, KO0N
>          nebezene@plains.nodak.edu
> UUCP:    uunet!ndsuvax!nebezene
> Bitnet:  nebezene@ndsuvax
>          NU040889@ndsuvm1

I have PC/AT clone. When I try to use "SET var=value" in autoexec.bat
to install Quick C, I get the error "Enviornment out of space". Can 
someone tell me how to get around this problem?


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