Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!netsys!tsl
From: tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Environment space size?
Summary: I believe enviroment variables can be larger
Keywords: environment variables size
Message-ID: <2183@netsys.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 20:11:01 GMT
References: <1900@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <554@leah.Albany.Edu> <1055@cpocd2.UUCP>
Reply-To: tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston,Contributor)
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In article <1055@cpocd2.UUCP> rod@cpocd2.UUCP (Rod Rebello) writes:
>In article <554@leah.Albany.Edu> emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm) writes:
>>...
>>Also note that no environment variable can occupy more than 127 (128?) bytes
>							     ^^^^^^^^^^
>Does anyone know of a way to increase the environment variable size?
>Or is this just not doable?

	Enviroment variables are kept in the env. space by seperating them
with a null.  In theory, you could expand the variable and but the null
farther along, but it's possible that many programs have 128 byte variables
set aside for them, and they would only get the first 128 bytes. ( just
an idea, I honestly don't know, so this could be all wrong)

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