Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!dono From: dono@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Don OConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: environment sizes Keywords: environment sizes Message-ID: <6714@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 8 Jan 89 03:21:07 GMT Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 11 SHELL = [d:] [path] command.com /P /E:xxx The /P parameter tells command.com to stay PERMANENT and run autoexec.bat ie. it will not exit with an EXIT command The /E:xxx in dos3.2 and up is number of bytes in environment (160-32768) dos3.1 it is the number of 16 byte paragraphs. Don O'Connell killer!dono