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From: tss@lanl.gov (Timothy S Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: environment variable DOS16M ??
Keywords: environment variables, DOS16M, DOS, Lotus 1-2-3
Message-ID: <44336@lanl.gov>
Date: 22 Feb 90 23:51:29 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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I'm posting this for a friend with no access to the net. Please
e-mail responses to tss@lanl.gov

My friend got a new Dell 286 machine and like a good person
he immediately began testing out all his software. He had a
problem getting Lotus 1-2-3 to work right and put in a call
to Xerox, who services the Dell machines. At first they thought
it was a bad hard disk, but finally the Xerox guy said to
put SET DOS16M=10 in his AUTOEXEC.BAT or if that didn't work
to try SET DOS16M=1000. To make a long story longer, the
SET DOS16M=10 worked fine. The question is what is this
variable, DOS16M. I checked Lotus manuals and DOS manuals and
can find no mention of it. Also, there seems like a large difference
between 10 and 1000. Whatever this variable is, what is the
optimum value (if any)?

Thanks,
	Tim Sullivan (tss@lanl.gov)