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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: HELP! Environment size trouble
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Date: 17 Jun 91 13:57:03 GMT
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geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:


>   The first line of my CONFIG.SYS file reads:

>SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /e:384 /p

> ... but DesqView opens each window with a 160 byte environment!

>   Help!  I *need* larger environments!

The SHELL= thing only affects the lowest level COMMAND.COM, that is, the
one loaded at boot time.  You need to patch your copy of COMMAND.COM
(e.g., with DEBUG) to make the default environment size bigger.  The
magic location varies with version of DOS; in 3.3 (where I personally
discovered it, since that's the version I use), it is EB8h.
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