Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!steveha
From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Increasing Environment Space
Message-ID: <55654@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 16:19:03 GMT
References: <90183.141937SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Organization: Microsoft International Products Group
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In article <90183.141937SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes:
>Is there a way to tell Windows to start a Non-Windows application
>with a larger environment? Any time I run a batch file (from Windows)
>that sets environment variables I get `out of environment space'
>errors.

Make a PIF file for the batch file you want to run, say "FOO.BAT."  Inside
FOO.PIF, when you specify what to run, instead of saying "FOO.BAT" you
should say "COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /C FOO.BAT".

Note that when you just specify "FOO.BAT" Windows will run a COMMAND.COM
anyway to execute it, so this technique does not cost you anything.
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