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From: ckinsman@eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman - EE major)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Environment space for DOS appl. under Windows
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.032517.21201@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 03:25:17 GMT
References: <433.2721eb3c@ae.chalmers.se>
Reply-To: ckinsman@yoda.UUCP (Chris Kinsman - EE major)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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In article <433.2721eb3c@ae.chalmers.se> hogstedt@ae.chalmers.se (PER HOGSTEDT) writes:
>Hi, 
>
> When running DOS applications from Windows I get too little environment
>space for my application. Windows allocates 224 bytes in standard mode (I
>think).
>How can I tell Windows to allocate more environment for my DOS application?
>Yes - I have tried TFM as well as all *.TXT files I can find without
>any success.
>
>Any bright ideas?
>
I don't know if this is bright but it works.  do a SET DUMMY1=111111111111111
(256 characters)  This will give you an additional 256 bytes or so of
environment space.  Run your program from a batch that does a SET DUMMY1= 
before running your program.

Chris