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From: jch@cbnewsh.att.com (jeffrey.c.halle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How to extend the environment space?
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.143701.2034@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 14:37:01 GMT
References: <7867@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <7867@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>, by s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Soon Mok):
> @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!

The suggestions given will work if it's the lowest level shell.  However, if
it's a higher shell, such as a DOS escape in many programs, the environment
space for that shell reverts to the default 160, or whatever is required for
the existing environment.  There will be no room for such things as augmenting
the path or setting new variables.  I have not discovered any way around this
situation.