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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Environment Size
Summary: Setting the Environment Size in Child Processes
Message-ID: <557@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 8 Jan 88 19:14:45 GMT
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Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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I forgot to mention that the same switches (/e: and /p) can also be applied
to child processes (secondary, tertiary, etc. command.com's) that you
invoke. According to the manual, environment size can be up to 32768 bytes
although I have not personally verified this and have had a contradictory
report. In any event, typing

command /e:1000 would reserve 1000 bytes of environment space for the child
process. One word of warning, if you use the /p switch, the system will go
through bootup procedure (read config.sys and command.com) and you will not
be able to get back to the original command.com (since there is now a new
processor to process the exit command).

In relation to the original question (that I did misunderstand), I have a
program that will tell you how much environment space is currently in use
but I don't think that will really help. If you want it, just e-mail me a
request.