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From: JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.30A and "SHELL=" in CONFIG.SYS (SLOWness)
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Date: 27 Oct 90 23:12:18 GMT
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I have, quite successfully I should add, lengthened my path  by use of a
shareware program called CPATH.  It is available from SIMTEL20 and allows
one to add directories to a path, delete directories from the path or change
the path all together.  I believe that it also comes with some other programs
that gives statistics about the environment size and how full/empty it is.
I did have to increase my environment size by the use of the SHELL statement
in my CONFIG.SYS file.  I am using DOS 3.3 and I learned about the SHELL
command from PC Magazine's big book on DOS (I don't remember the exact
title but I refer to it as my BIG DOS book.)  There have been a lot of
things changed in the subtle ways that the SHELL command works in the past
few versions of DOS.  So be sure to check out the  specifics of your DOS
version before expanding the environment size with SHELL.

Sincerely,
Jason P. Meyers
JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET