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From: pitonyak@mostaccioli.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Pitonyak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Zenith '286 DOS question:  Changing environment space.
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Date: 11 May 91 00:45:44 GMT
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In article <MCGLK.91May9191425@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> mcglk@cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes:

>Once again, the occasional quirkiness of the Zenith software strikes.  I need
>to define just a couple more eensy-weensy environment variables, and I've got
>the deadly "Out of environment space" message.  And yet, when I use the
>standard MS-DOS way of changing that environment space, it don't work.  How
>*does* one tell the Zenith to (say) allocate 4K for the environment space?

I don't believe that this is anything but standard DOS but this works on
my Zenith with dos 4.01

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:1024

In my config.sys file does the trick.  You can change the 1024 to 
however much space you want to allocate.  Hope this helps.

Andy