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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: SHELL command problems and setting environment size
Summary: Additional note on setting environment size
Keywords: environment variables size
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Date: 22 Jan 88 19:26:16 GMT
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Someone mentioned to me that they had trouble getting the shell command to
work in DOS 3.3. I had previously specified

SHELL=[d:][\pathname]\command.com [d:][\pathname] /e:nnnn /p

I checked three references and the solution to the problem may be to swap
the /e:nnnn and /p switches to read

SHELL=[d:][\pathname]\command.com [d:][\pathname] /p /e:nnnn 

I have had no trouble with the first order but three references (MS-DOS
Power User's Guide, DOS Power User's Guide, Using PC-DOS 3.3) all used the
second order. I hope this helps anyone who has had trouble with this
command.