"L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I will often ALT-e and pop over to doze3.1 in order to read a pdf file,
> in case I got the wrong thing in an ftp I'm still on line.
>
> That requires me to reset my path ... i.e. simply add F:\win3.1 to the
> end.
>
> I can't do it when shelled out from Arachne any longer!
> Why?
> My system says I'm OUT OF ENVIRONMENT !!! ????
I don't know what version of DOS you are using, but I know that
with MS-DOS 5.0 the default environment size was 256 bytes and
loading command.com /E only increased the size of the master
environment. When you shelled to DOS you got the greater of 256
or the amount used by the calling program.
For example, if you set the environment to 512 with /E and used
300 in the master environment, you would only have 300 when you
shelled to DOS. The only way I remember to get around this was
to patch command.com (with debug) to increase the default size
or use dummy variables.
I haven't used later versions of MS-DOS, but OpenDOS 7.01 does
not seem to have this limitation.
I use a small PC-Mag utility called findenv.exe or one I wrote
myself, that gives the size of the active environment, amount
used and amount free.
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa
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