On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 05:29:49 -0500 (EST),
"Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I checked my MS-DOS 5 User's Guide and Reference, and you don't have to hack
> COMMAND.COM. COMMAND.COM has a parameter /e:nnn where nnn = number of bytes
> desired for environment.
Of course it does, but keep reading. On the very next page (385):
|Notes
|
|Running Multiple command interpreters
|
|When you start a new command interpreter, MS-DOS creates a new command
|environment. This new environment is a copy of the parent environment.
|You can change the new environment without affecting the old one. The
|default size of the new environment is 256 bytes or the size of the
|current environment rounded up to the next 16 bytes, whichever is
|larger. Use the /e switch to overide the default size. (Note that the
|current environment refers to the memory actually being used, not to
|the environment size specified with the previous /e switch.)
Howard E.
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