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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Out of environment
Keywords: Environment
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Date: 7 Jan 91 07:15:03 GMT
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OK, this is probably an easy one for you guys.  I'm getting an "out of
environment" error when I attempt to run a batch program that sets
a few environment variables and then runs a program.  I've got the
SHELL command in config.sys set to allocate 1024 of environment
for DOS 3.30. A SET command shows that about 370 bytes of space is
taken up by the actual environment variables and their values.

Deleting a few extraneous environment variables doesn't seem to 
work at all--the new EVs seem to get cut off in exactly the same place.
Upping the SHELL environment space doesn't seem to work either.

Is the environment space being fragmented so a new variable can't be set?
Any way to fix this?  Any ideas?

Please reply by email, I don't follow this group regularly...

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