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From: jkg@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.2
Message-ID: <2755@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 12:11:10 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2755
Posted: Tue Dec  2 12:11:10 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Dec-86 07:08:43 EST
References: <1157@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> <1986Dec1.234408.21398@utcs.uucp>
Reply-To: jkg@gitpyr.UUCP (Jim Greenlee)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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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!

You can also do this in DOS 3.1, although the syntax is a little different.
The argument passed after the "/e:" is a two digit decimal number between 16 
and 62. (I'm not sure about the lower bound, but 62 is definitely the max.).

The argument represents the number of 16 byte "pages" you want to allocate for
the environment space. I found that I had to put a space between "command.com" 
and the rest of the line for it to work right. The "/p" tells COMMAND.COM to
stay resident after loading.

This is an undocumented (well, maybe if I'd read the manual ... :-) feature of 
DOS that really ought not to be.

                                                   Jim Greenlee

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