Sam Ewalt wrote:
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> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:01:58 +0100, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Daniel Pruitt noted that he had problems before he increased his
> > environment size so if someone with problems (that's mean you L.D <g>)
> > would raise theirs and see what happens I would be interested in hearing
> > the results. Of course if you already have some 2K or something like that
> > in environment space using more will probably not help you.
>
> How does one do that? On rare occasions I have gotten "out of
> evironment space" errors when shelling out of Arachne to DOS.
You should have a line like this in your config.sys:
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /p /e:512
The final number is the size you have allocated to the environment.
2048 is totally ridiculous and uses up precious low memory with most DOSs.
512 is what I use with no problem whatsover.
Arachne needs a little over 140 bytes worst case - online and shelled out.
Add this to whatever you normally have in it, like your path and prompt and
the ARACHNETEMP specification etc. Type SET to see what you have in it now.
I use up only 106 bytes of that 512 under normal conditions, and with Arachne
worst case as above, my *TOTAL* used is only 247 bytes - so I could get away
with 256 (and I do on my '386).
DOS defaults to only 160 bytes if you don't tell it otherwise in config.sys.
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