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From: jag2@nvuxj.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.2 Environment size fix
Message-ID: <167@nvuxj.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 09:24:56 EST
Article-I.D.: nvuxj.167
Posted: Wed Feb 18 09:24:56 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Feb-87 07:19:56 EST
References: <165@nvuxj.UUCP> <75800021@uiucdcsp>
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Navesink, NJ
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Summary: Desqview

In article <75800021@uiucdcsp>, vanzandt@uiucdcsp.UUCP writes:
> 
> 	Why not use the /E:xx parameter on the command = command.com
> command? This allows you to variably set the environment to whatever
> size you want. See discussions on command.com, config.sys, and the shell
> command in the IBM PC-DOS 3.2 manual. It works great...
> |	Lonnie VanZandt University of Illinois	 Dept. of CS (217) 333-1925   |

	As I stated in the article containing the fix, the Desqview operating
system starts a command.com on it's own with no obvious way to pass it
options.   Since I posted that fix, I found that I could indeed pass options
to command.com by changing the "command to start program" entry to something
like "command.com /e:512 /c setup" where setup is a batch program that
starts my command editor and sets environment variables. 

	I still prefer the larger defualt.  If I want it to be smaller
I could use the /e option.

J. A. Gardina
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