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From: wilson@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Tom Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.1 environment
Summary: Can be modified if PC-DOS
Message-ID: <3016@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 89 11:54:07 GMT
References: <2986@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: wilson@uhccux.UUCP (Tom Wilson)
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In article <2986@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> cordero@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (  Manuel Cordero  ) writes:
>
>I was wondering if anybody out there new What I need to do to change 
>the size of my DOS environment?  I have an IBM AT running DOS 3.1.

DOS 3.1 doesn't have the /E switch available for resetting the size of
the environment space via the 'shell =' command in CONFIG.SYS (as you
have probably discovered.)  The only options I know are:    

1)  Get DOS 3.2 (of course, you have to install it on your hard disk,
which might require unloading everything if it doesn't fit)

2)  If you are using the true PC-DOS (*not* MS-DOS) 3.1, then track down
a copy of the SETENV utility included with MSC 5 or MSC Fortran.  This
patches COMMAND.COM to increase the size of the environment space.

    SETENV doesn't work with DOS other than PC-DOS, at least for the ones
that I have tried (Compaq, Leading Edge)

-- 
Tom Wilson
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