Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!zardoz!conexch!rob
From: rob@conexch.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Increasing environment space
Message-ID: <8324@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 20:18:00 GMT
References: <1320@number1.step.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@conexch.UUCP Robert Collins
Organization: The Consultants' Exchange, Orange County, CA.  (714) 842-6348
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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?
-

By reading the DOS manual.
Check out CONFIG.SYS  "SHELL" command.
Put this in your config.sys:
SHELL=COMMAND.COM /E:xxxx
  "where xxxx specifies a base 10 integer and indicates the number of bytes
  to set the environment size.  This number must be in the range of
  160 to 32768.  It is rounded up to the nearest paragraph boundary.  If
  the size contains any non-numeric characters or is less than 160, the
  environment is set to 160 bytes.  If the size is greater than 32768 the
  environment is set to 32768."


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