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Subject: Re: Environment Space on DOS 3.1 and higher
Message-ID: <3960@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 08:54:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 08:54:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 11:34:48 EDT
References: <195@sidd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <4330005@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: dsnow@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Snow)
Organization: Arts Computing Office, University of Waterloo.
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In article <4330005@hpindda.HP.COM> hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) writes:
>
>PC Magazine had a discussion of this a few months ago in their
>PRODUCTIVITY section in the back.  The /e: option on the shell 
>command works for DOS 3.1, too, but it indicates a number of
>blocks of environment space rather than the number of bytes.
>I forget the block size, but I think it was on the order of
>magnitude of 100 bytes/block.

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Doug Snow, Arts Computing Office, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

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