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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSDOS expands environment space on the fly
Summary: There is a limit
Keywords: not config.sys, environment space, pc tricks
Message-ID: <40625@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 89 14:50:37 GMT
References: <4368@charon.unm.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <4368@charon.unm.edu>, mikep@ariel.unm.edu (Mike Prine CIRT) writes:
> 
> 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.


This has been possible since msdos v2.0 at least.  There is a 
limit, however, and it is documented: 32K.




Forrest Gehrke