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From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
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Subject: Re: HELP! Environment size trouble
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.095622.5492@nntp.hut.fi>
Date: 18 Jun 91 09:56:22 GMT
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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.

You can also use dummy variables to eat up space.

SET FOO=BARBARBARBARBARBARBARBRABRABABABABBBBBARABABARBRAB
SET BAR=FOOFOFOFOFOFOFOOOOFOOFOFOOFFFFOOOOOFOFOOFOOOFOFOFO

When you need space in you just say:

set foo=
set I_need_a_varable=something


Markus Strand
Markus.Strand@hut.fi