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From: SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Increasing Environment Space
Message-ID: <90186.142724SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: 5 Jul 90 18:27:24 GMT
References: <90183.141937SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <55654@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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In article <55654@microsoft.UUCP>, steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) says:
>
>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".
>
Ok, this method works if the `Program Filename' in the .pif file
is COMMAND.COM and the `Optional Parameters' is /e:1024 /c foo.bat.
If the Program Filename is supplied as ``command.com /e:1024 /c foo.bat'',
a window pops up saying that it cannont find the file COMMAND.COM /E:1024...
Some batch files I run don't accept parameters and I can define a working
.pif for these using /e:1024 /c as an Optional Parameter in the PIF Editor.
However, many of my batch files accept parameters and defining the .pif
in this manner doesn't allow Windows to prompt me for the parameter
before running the batch file. It's a big problem.

What is needed is a flag in either win.ini or system.ini specifying
default parameters for command.com whenever Windows needs to spawn
command.com (ie: to run a batch file from a .pif). This seems so
simple that I can't believe Windows doesn't allow for this functionality.
Maybe there's another solution?

Sal.
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