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From: readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read)
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Subject: Re: Comspec
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Date: 20 Nov 90 21:48:17 GMT
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In article <> ornstein@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jason Ornstein) writes:
>Well, this is about the fastest place to get a reply to which I need
>an an answer really quick like.  I keep running out to of environment
>space and I need to set the comspec to a bigger value (1024k) but I
>don't have a DOS manual that has the command line for it, and I know
>that its late and no one would be open at this hour.  If you could
>please mail me the set comspec to enlarge my environment space I would
>be indebted to you (or many of yous) :->
>

The COMSPEC variable doesn't do it.  In MS-DOS v 3.2 or higher, you
need to put the following line in your config.sys:

SHELL=C:\{path}\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P

where {path} is the path to your command.com.  The /E:#### parameter
sets the environment size, and the /P tells it to use your
autoexec.bat file.  /P is *not* the default; if you leave it off, your
autoexec file will not be 'auto.'  I discovered this when I had to
change my environment size last month...


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