Hi Folks,
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:01:58 +0100, Bernie wrote:
>> 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.
Clarence Verge wrote:
> 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.
Well, I have e:1024 set, and I got smileys and a trashed ARACHNE.CFG
with A1.70rev3. So I don't think environment space is necessarily
involved directly.
On the other hand, it may be just one of the things that can trigger
something else that IS responsible for a smiley attack.
Clarence, yes I know it is more than you have, but I was getting "out of
environment space" errors with other DOS progs that I use, when the
environment was lower. I just kept doubling it until they stopped, and
(thanks to you and others) I still end up with 620 kb of low DOS memory.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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