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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Increasing environment space
Message-ID: <782@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 16:40:12 GMT
References: <1320@number1.step.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Organization: The College On The Other Side of Route 1
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In article <1320@number1.step.UUCP> perl@step.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes:
...I just tried adding another directory to my PATH in the autoexec.bat
...file, and when I boot, I get "out of environment space".  How can I
...increase the initial allocation of environment space so that the set's
...in my autoexec.bat will succeed?
...
...Robert Perlberg
...Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York
...phri!{dasys1 | philabs | manhat}!step!perl
...	-- "I am not a language ... I am a free man!"


In CONFIG.SYS,
	shell=c:\command.com /P /E:1024
will increase the environment area of DOS 3.2 and up to 1024 bytes. 
Under 3.1, divide the desired byte number by 16 and use the quotient.