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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: c.b.i.p.d  Was: Re: Environment Space
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Date: 6 Feb 89 23:22:04 GMT
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dani@ritcsh.UUCP (Dani Kadoch) writes:
> >I hate to say RTFM, but the answer is in there.  Setenv.exe is for 2.x systems.
> >For 3.x systems there is a line to add to config.sys.  I don't remember
> >exactly what it is but it is something like SHELL=COMMAND.COM /P:XXXX
> >where XXXX is the size in paragraphs of the environment.  /P is probably wrong
> 
> Yup, /P is wrong, it should be /E, and XXXX specifies the number of
> BYTES, not paragraphs to reserve for the environment space.  So if you
> need to reserve 500 bytes this is what you should have in your
> config.sys:
> SHELL=COMMAND.COM /E:500
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Correction to correction: paragraphs for DOS 3.1, bytes for DOS >= 3.2

Don't you love it when the syntax is the same but the meaning different?

John Hardin
hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com