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From: glen@sunscreen.UUCP (Glen Ivey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE:  DOS environment expansion.
Summary: shell=c:\command.com /E:5000 /P
Keywords: Out of environment space
Message-ID: <863@cirrusl.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 89 19:04:42 GMT
Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP
Reply-To: glen@sunscreen (Glen Ivey)
Organization: CIRRUS LOGIC Inc.
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    Lengthening the environment space takes a very arcane command.
(At least the way I do it.)  You are required to put a "SHELL" command
in your CONFIG.SYS file.  This command is available primarily to allow
the replacement of COMMAND.COM as the command line interpreter,
however, it also allows command line parameters to be passed to
COMMAND.COM, which is what you need.  The line from my CONFIG.SYS is:

shell=c:\command.com /E:5000 /P

Which, if I recall correctly specifies an environment size of 5K, with
the "/P" option required to cause the processing of the AUTOEXEC.BAT
file.

    Hope this helps,
        glen

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Cirrus Logic     glen%cirrusl%oliveb@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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