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From: wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: environment variables
Summary: depends on the version of DOS
Message-ID: <6737@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 05:22:58 GMT
References: <567@interlan.UUCP> <5954@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips)
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It depends on what version of DOS you are using.  If it's earlier than 3.1,
it _might_ be possible to do it through a program.  If it is 3.1 (I am told
this only works with some copies, but it's always worked for me), you need
to put something like the following in your CONFIG.SYS:

shell=c:\command.com /p/e:16

where the number following e: is the number of PARAGRAPHS (16 byte blocks)
you want for the environment.  In the example, e:16 will produce a 256-byte
environment.  This feature is undocumented (though I have heard that _some_
MS-DOS manuals mention it (?)).

Under 3.2 and 3.3, the number following e: is the number of BYTES you want
for the environment.  I believe this is documented.

I haven't the foggiest notion how to do it under 4.0.

Hope this helps.

-- 
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