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To: <alicdima AT sprint DOT ca>, "A. Sinan Unur" <Sinan DOT Unur AT cornell DOT edu>,
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From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Environment Space
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 10:29:55 -0700
Message-ID: <19980509172947.AAD16984@ppp105.cartsys.com>

At 08:35  5/8/1998 -0400, Dmitri Ivanenko wrote:
>> nebo wrote:
>> > 
>> > Does anyone know how to increase the environment space for DOS.
>> >         With my sound card and a few other utils, I had to create
>> >         a separate batch file with selective environment settings
>> >         just to get access to all the needed directories.
>> >         and now with 2.8.0, the directory tree is even longer.
>> 
>> shell=c:\command.com /p /e:2048 in config.sys
>
>Are there any other figures that could be used other than 2048, like 4096
>or so to have even more env. space?

Yes, AFAIK you can go up to around 32768. I don't think it has to be a
multiple of anything in particular. Note that this has somewhat of a memory
footprint, especially if you actually use the space. Set what you need, but
don't go overboard.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com



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