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From: pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.30A and "SHELL=" in CONFIG.SYS (SLOWness)
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Date: 13 Oct 90 17:51:27 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.224956.21168@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kjj44752@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kirsten J Johnson) writes:
>Does anyone else think that 160 bytes of environment space is ludicrous?
>My path can be longer than that.
>

It's as ludicrous as 16 characters of type ahead.  I usually can't
even get the next command typed waiting for the current one to finish.

Actually, my path seems to be limited to ~120 bytes, after which it
truncates.  Yet another anomoly of DOS that is no end of an annoyance.

					  Eric Pilger
					  Systems Programmer
					  NASA Infrared Telescope Facility