Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!liv-cs!st-and!gn From: gn@st-andrews.ac.uk (Greg Newman) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Message when booting Message-ID: <1990Dec6.020315.29148@st-andrews.ac.uk> Date: 6 Dec 90 02:03:15 GMT References: <2156@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Distribution: alt Organization: University Of St. Andrews, Scotland Lines: 16 In article 2156, edgincd2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Chris) writes: >In article COWAN.90Dec2081719, cowan@aero.org (Ric Cowan) writes: >> I get the message "Out of environment space" when booting up. Would >> some kind soul tell me how to move 'environment space'? > >You didn't mention what dos version you were using, but for DOS 4 and above >I know that the following in your config.sys will increase your environment > SHELL = C:\COMMAND.COM /e:nnnnn This also works in DOS 3.30, and for some reason which now eludes me, the suffixing of a '/p' (ie shell = c:\dos\command.com /e:640 /p) is required. Greg Newman pgn@kc.aberdeen.ac.uk ---