Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!igloo!ddsw1!obdient!vpnet!cgordon From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Batch files and environment space Keywords: batch environment Message-ID: <2778c53e-8c2.1comp.windows.ms-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Date: 26 Dec 90 18:55:03 GMT References: <1990Dec24.144159.13500@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Lines: 17 >Author: [Donald J Roufa] >Windows ver. 3 spawns a shell with only 160 bytes of environment >Isn't there some way to tell Windows to run batch files with more >environment space available to them? Not that I'm aware of. (I'm no expert!) But what I do is set an environment variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT, that is just filler. Then I can clear this one to free up environment space in Windows. SET DUMMY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX... You get the picture... ----------------------------------------------------- Gordon S. Hlavenka cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us Disclaimer: Yeah, I said it. So what?