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From: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit
Message-ID: <326@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 10:23:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 10:23:07 1987
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In article <348@ssbn.UUCP> bill@ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>
>If you plan to use the Toolkit under DOS 2.x, do so at your own risk.
>MKS says it works, other users say it works, but I can tell you how/why
>it won't work.  The Korn shell requires a fair amount of space in the
>ENVIRONMENT and DOS 2.x is very skimpy, 256 bytes I think.  If you do not
>use SET's, other than the Toolkit or very short ones it will probably
>work just fine.  If you do use SET's or very long ones, you are at risk
>of overflowing the ENVIRONMENT space and if you are unsuspecting, you will
>assume that MKS broke your computer (I did).
>
I'm not sure I totally agree with the above, although I've never used dos 2.x.

Command.com allocates some small amount of space for the environment.

Once you run another shell, that shell can allocate environment space out of
its user space.  When execing a child process, if you tell it the environment
is not the default, will DOS set up environments of > 256 bytes?

marty