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From: maartenj@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Jan Huisjes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: increasing DOS stack size for MS-DOS v 3.2
Message-ID: <1006@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 20:45:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  9 20:45:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 11:41:35 EDT
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Reply-To: maartenj@cs.vu.nl (Huisjes Maarten Jan)
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In article <1285@ur-tut.UUCP> alab@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Daniel F. Luna) writes:
>In article <5931@shemp.UCLA.EDU> feldy@CS.UCLA.EDU (Bob Felderman) writes:
>>Is it possible with DOS version 3.2 to increase the size of the DOS stack by
>>adding a line to config.sys, or some such thing??
>>
> 
>  Try adding STACKS=xxx in the config.sys file.  (Documented in Appendix of
>   DOS Manual).

The correct syntax (for PC DOS 3.21) is: STACKS=n,s
where n is the number of stack frames (default 9)
and s is the size in bytes of each frame (default 128)
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			Maarten Jan  Huisjes.  (maartenj@cs.vu.nl)
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