Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:41:29 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > The one thing that I did notice was that after logging into my ISP,
> > there were 3 lines that said something about Out of bounds error or
> > something along those lines. Does anybody know what I am
> > talking about or could help me?
>
> Hello Matt:
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> The error message that appeared but very briefly on your screen probably
> said "Out of Environment Space". This kind of error is due to either not
> having enough memory, or having an improper configuration for memory, or
> failure to set a large enough environment variable. See your DOS manual
> and read your Arachne documentation files for more information.
Hi Sam and Matt;
Thanks, Sam for jogging me with the above.
Matt, you should have a line in your config.sys to expand your
environment space.
Mine is: SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /p /e:992
The 992 tells DOS to reserve 992 bytes (62 paragraphs) for the environment.
I chose 992 because it was the maximum that earlier DOSs would allow and it
is plenty for me anytime. Pick a number, any number, over 256.
I just checked with Arachne. Online and shelled to DOS, my environment has
232 bytes used. If you have a path that goes all the way across the screen
you may need more. The default is 160 bytes - at least with my DOS.
- Clarence Verge
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