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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Environment problems
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Date: 7 Mar 90 18:38:58 GMT
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In article <16558@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>,
larsen@mist.cs.orst.edu (Scott Larsen) writes:
>I recently changed my autoexec file to set a few more environment var's,
>and now I get the message:
>
>Out of environment space
>
In your CONFIG.SYS file, put the line:

SHELL=c:\command.com /p /E:2048

or similar, where you should use the correct path for your system,
(note that if it is not in the root directory, DOS will set COMSPEC
to the correct disk, but not to the right path, so you may have to
set this manually).

the /E parameter says how much space (in bytes) should be used for
the environment (I believe that for MD-DOS <=3.1 or thereabouts, the
number was a number of paragraphs, but the above is definitely true
for 3.3 and above).

Richard Stanton