On 26 Feb 01 at 10:20, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
>Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:12:06 -0500
>From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: environment space
>Let's try to get some REAL info the only way that ever works. Experiment.<g>
Clarence and victims of limited environment space,
Dosshell behaves differently with MS-DOS 6 and MS-DOS 7.10!
With DOS 6.0 dosshell resets the environment space to 512 bytes or
one byte more than already used. As my autoexec.bat and arainst.bat
use already more than 512 there will be an environment space error
whenever I try to define a variable under dosshell. If I use fill.bat
in autoexec and under dosshell another batch file clear.bat to clear
the test variables then there will be plenty of memory for
additional variables
With DOS 7.1 (W98) dosshell seems to offer unlimited environment
space (even if you defined it in config.sys).
My dir2htm.dgi utility did not work with DOS 6, but worked with DOS
7.1. I put the search path to the environment variable d2h. I
could not enter a path longer than the default. Under DOS 7.10
this problem does not exist. No environment space errors at all!
BTW: I found another bug in my dir2htm utility. So I will
probably post a second version, with improved HTML layout, too.
Regards
Christof Lange
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phone: (+420-2) 22 78 18 00 / 22 78 20 02, telefax: 22 78 18 01
http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov
