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From: mikep@ariel.unm.edu (Mike Prine CIRT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MSDOS expands environment space on the fly
Keywords: not config.sys, environment space, pc tricks
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Date: 9 Feb 89 05:25:52 GMT
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Yes I know this topic is just about talked out but in creating
some progams to modify the environment space I came across an
interesting feature, on at least MSDOS 3.1 anyways on a Zenith 151.
You can never exhaust the environment space from the command line.
DOS just allocates additional paragraphs as needed. So if you just
need a little more space without modifying the CONFIG.SYS file,
enter a long symbol and then delete it ie:
set a=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
set a=
fun huu.

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