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From: geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: HELP! Environment size trouble
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.172529.1978@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:25:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.050659.9362@xenitec.on.ca> <1991Jun17.135703.15410@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1991Jun17.135703.15410@midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:
>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.

   Thanks... I received a few messages from helpful people, many
of whom suggested (my current solution) putting COMMAND /E:<n>
in the DV program description, but patching COMMAND.COM seems by
far the best approach.

   I'm off to find the magic location in Compaq DOS 3.31...