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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Environment Space - Increasing environment space in MS-DOS 3.2
Summary: Increasing environment space in MS-DOS 3.2
Keywords: setenv environment
Message-ID: <1513@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 1 Feb 89 00:23:51 GMT
References: <1134@khoo.sdl.UUCP>
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Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <1134@khoo.sdl.UUCP>, khoo@sdl.UUCP (Yong Khoo) writes:
> Can anyone provide info on expanding environment space for COMMAND.COM.
> My copy of setenv.exe that comes with Microsoft C 5.0 does not seem
> to work with MSDOS 3.20.

Just add the following line to CONFIG.SYS (make it the first line)

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P

You can replace occurrences of C:\ with the correct path for COMMAND.COM
(the first occurrence tells MS-DOS where to find COMMAND.COM the first time,
the second tells it where to find COMMAND.COM when it needs to reload). The
/E tells MS-DOS how many bytes to use for the environment (in bytes, to a
maximum of 32,767, default is 128 bytes). The /P tells MS-DOS that this is
the primary processor for the EXIT command. You also need this so that
AUTOEXEC.BAT will execute.

Eric M. Boehm
EMB978@ALBNY1VX.BITNET
EMB978@LEAH.ALBANY.EDU