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From: schwalbe@encore.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Display Paint pictures from a program?
Message-ID: <2014@encore.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 08:47:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: encore.2014
Posted: Mon Oct 12 08:47:34 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 00:49:50 EDT
References: <12341120864.28.GU.MORRIS@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>
Reply-To: schwalbe@encore.UUCP (Jim Schwalbe)
Organization: Encore Computer, Marlboro, MA
Lines: 20
Keywords: DOS environment
Summary: Increasing environment space

In article <12341120864.28.GU.MORRIS@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU> gu.morris@SCIENCE (Richard D. Morris) writes:
>The easiest way I know of to increase or decrease the environment size is
>by patching COMMAND.COM.  Microsoft currently offers a utility to do this


DOS 3.x allows for increasing the environment space by issuing the command:

shell = <path>\command.com /e:xxxx

in your config.sys file where <path> is where you keep command.com on your 
hard disk and xxxx is the number of bytes you want to set the environment to.


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