Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 1. allocating as much as possible space for a dummy variable in
> > autoexec.bat:
> >
> > set morespace=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (...)
>
> Yes, that's ugly but it WILL work if you can't find some instruction or
> switch to set the environment space in MS-DOSshell.
As I mentioned when this topic was discussed previously, another
way to handle this is to patch command.com with debug to increase
the default environment size. I did this with my command.com in
MS-DOS 5.0 to change it from 256k to 512k. This was several years
ago, and I doubt if I can find the docs, but I know it can be done.
Also, with OpenDOS 7.1 the /e switch with the shell=command.com
line in config.sys seems to change the default environment size
as well as the size of the master environment, so that there is
no problem to begin with.
Howard E.
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