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From: mwood@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Mike Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Environment variable space on 386
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Date: 3 May 91 18:57:06 GMT
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In article <94167@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, debbie@das (Debbie Callahan) writes:
>
>My boss has a 386 clone running DOS 3.30.  He has about 10 environment
>variables that he wants to set in autoexec.bat, but when he does this
>he sometimes gets an error message about not enough environment space
>and some applications act strange.  Is there a way to increase the 
>amount of environment space?
>
>Please respond by mail if possible.
>Debbie Callahan      debbie@das.llnl.gov   or   debbie@[128.115.41.1]
I had the same problem with some of my "power users" (or so they think) - I
found that by including the following as the last statement of the config.sys
did the trick:

    shell=c:\command.com c:\dos /e:256 /p

The /e switch is the important part, as it is what redefines the environment
area of dos.  I think I found this trick on this group.

Mike 8)
Mike Wood
MWOOD@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU