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From: felixc@cbnewsj.att.com (felix.cabral)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How to extend the environment space?
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.140735.11810@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 14:07:35 GMT
References: <3125@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <7867@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <7867@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Soon Mok) writes:
>@crdgw1.crd.ge.com:hil@cs.brown.edu (exos:) writes:
>>          Out of environment space.
>>How can avoid this error? Any help is very appreciated!
>
>It's exactly what it says. Command.com has run out of its default 160 bytes of
>environment space. To alleviate this problem put this into your config.sys
>file:
>
>shell=c:\dos\command.com /e:256  
>(assuming command.com is in your c:\dos directory)
>
>This will give MSDOS 256bytes of environment space. It can an integer from
>160 (the default) up to 32768.
>

I have dos 4.01 and used the shell variable in my config file with values
up to /e:2048. IT DONT WORK! Why?

I still get environment space problems. The messgae is printed by the 
"autopath" program which I use to increase my path more than 128bytes.
I need to have a larger path but the environment space is not there. 
Somebody please help. I recall seeing something about a PD program which
claimed to increase the envir space. However, this was over a year ago
and have not seen any more stuff on it since.



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