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From: murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is /E on command.com
Message-ID: <5130@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 88 16:56:48 GMT
References: <8803241628.AA04994@decwrl.dec.com> <1986@optilink.UUCP> <2161@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <1515@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <5410@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Here is the easiest way to expand the DOS environment.  The first
line in your autoexec.bat should be:

     shell=command.com /P /E:1024

This tells DOS to make command.com the 'new' shell, to allocate 1k bytes
for envar space (/E:1024) and to make the shell permanent (/P).  This
only works in 3.2 and 3.3 (maybe 3.0 and 3.1, I forget)

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