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From: coulter@hpclisp.HP.COM (Michael Coulter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another twist on DOS environment sizes.
Message-ID: <620011@hpclisp.HP.COM>
Date: 22 May 88 14:20:53 GMT
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Organization: HP NSG/ISD Computer Language Lab
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A technique that is sometimes useful is to define several large strings in
the parent's environment.  If you find yourself in a subshell running out
of space you can wipe out the junk strings and get some space.  

This is a lousy work-around but sometimes better than nothing.  Could the
system be patched somewhere to force the allocation of more space by
default?

-- Michael Coulter	...{ucbvax|hplabs}!hpda!coulter