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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.2
Message-ID: <622@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 13:44:47 EST
Article-I.D.: bucsb.622
Posted: Tue Dec  2 13:44:47 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 22:08:14 EST
References: <1157@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> <1986Dec1.234408.21398@utcs.uucp>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim Frost)
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Keywords: DOS

In article <1986Dec1.234408.21398@utcs.uucp> tj@utcs.UUCP (tj) writes:
>
>One really nice feature (in fact, probably the only one I need) is the ability
>to increase the environment size in config.sys so that my monster path
>specification and all the environment variables fit!
>shell=c:\command.com /e:1024 /p
>is all you need in config.sys to do it!
>

Note that DOS 3.1 gives this capability too, but I think you specify
the size in paragraphs, not bytes.

>Oh, 3.2 is required for 3.5 inch floppies... Note that I understand that
>3.2 is distributed on 3.5 and 5.25 inch floppies and they are
>different!!! The 5.25 inch version needs an externally loaded driver
>to handle 3.5 inch floppies!

3.2 isn't required for 3.5 inch floppies.  Several companies sell
drivers and controllers for 3.5 inch floppies for any dos above 2.0
(Flagstaff Engineering, with whom I am unrelated, is one such
manufacturer).  However, 3.2 is by far the cheapest way to use them,
with the possible exception of PD drivers that I am unaware of.

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