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From: beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Environment space when running a DOS task
Summary: Expanding environment space with Shell = ...
Message-ID: <436@dev386.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 16:38:15 GMT
References: <453@ambone.UUCP> <197@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City
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In article <197@oregon.uoregon.edu>, michelbi@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
> If you *simply* want to expand you environment space, I think you can do this 
> using the SHELL = COMMAND.COM /xxx where xxx is you environment space in
> bytes.  This line should be in your config.sys file.

Actually (at least under MSDOS 3.3) the proper syntax is:

       Shell = Command.Com /e:xxx /p

Where xxx represents a number of bytes that will be reserved for environment
space, and the /p specifies that this is the top level command.com.