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From: halcyon!ralphs@sumax.seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How to extend the environment space?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 16:27:43 GMT
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s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Soon Mok) writes:

> 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.

Except for some editions of DOS that use /e:nn, where nn is the number
of paragraphs of environment (16 bytes each, if memory serves).  The
range is normally from 10 to 62, with 10 being the default.  This was
true for most versions of DOS 3.1 and may have carried over to subsequent
releases.