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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Increasing the default DOS 4.01 environment space?
Message-ID: <59621@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 22:14:15 GMT
References: <2381@sparko.gwu.edu>
Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Organization: Microsoft International Products Group
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In article <2381@sparko.gwu.edu> timur@seas.gwu.edu () writes:
>Does anyone have the patch for PC-DOS 4.01 to expand the default environment
>size?  I'm sick and tired of this "Out of environment space" error I get
>when running DOS sessions under Win3.

Select your DOS Prompt icon in File Manager.  Pull down File Properties and
select the Command Line field.  Change that field from "COMMAND.COM" to
"COMMAND.COM /e:xxx" where xxx is the size of the environment you want.
I use 1024.

I don't know of any patch for DOS 4.01, since the /e parameter does the job
quite adequately.


>BTW, Microsoft ----
>
>You are such a bunch of brain-damaged idiots!!!!  Why doesn't the /E
>switch work with secondary command processes??????  I can't believe,
>that after three major revisions to DOS, this still occurs.

The /e parameter applies only to the instance of COMMAND.COM you use it on.
If you run a secondary COMMAND.COM you must use /e on that one also to
expand its environment space.

I, too, wish that there was a way to change the default size of the
environment so that /e on each COMMAND.COM would be unnecessary.  But it
would be only a small convenience.


>TT
>
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>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------ The Time Traveler
>I love you, Timur.                                           a.k.a. Timur Tabi
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I might add that the tone of your posting almost made me junk your article
without replying.  If you had RTFM and experimented before you posted, you
could have answered your own question, without calling anyone names.  And
appending two copies of your .signature to your posts is not likely to
impress anyone.

Next time, be more careful before you post.
-- 
Steve "I don't speak for Microsoft" Hastings    ===^=== :::::
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