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From: sn@polari.UUCP (Shade Nightwing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How to extend the environment space?
Summary: Update CONFIG.SYS file
Message-ID: <3166@polari.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 91 13:27:18 GMT
References: <3125@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944
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In article <3125@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> @crdgw1.crd.ge.com:hil@cs.brown.edu (exos:) writes:
>
>    When I set too much environment variables, the following 
>error message appears:
> 
>          Out of environment space.
>
>How can avoid this error? Any help is very appreciated!
>

In your CONFIG.SYS file (if you don't have one, then create it) there should be
a line that says:
      shell=c:\command.com c:\ /p /e:1024
the number after the e: is how many bytes to have in your environment space.
By the way, I don't know the exact level of DOS you need for this to work;
I know that it does work fine for v3.3 and up.