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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: set environment
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 17:16:31 EST
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While the theoretical limit on environment strings may be 32K, it
turns out that in 2.X (and I believe in 3.X as well) you can't
pass more than 128 bytes of environment down from autoexec to the
rest of the system.  Unfortunately, this tends to be exactly
the use you most often want to make.

--Lauren--