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From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Environment space for DOS appl. under Windows
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Date: 24 Oct 90 13:23:29 GMT
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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?
>
You could also try putting the following line in your CONFIG.SYS:

SHELL=\path to where command.com is\COMMAND.COM /P /E:XXX

where XXX is the number of bytes to allocate for your environment space.
The default is 256 bytes I believe.  Try something like 384 or 512.

Chuck
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