Lee Goddard wrote:
> I've just reinstalled Perl and some other software,
> and my autoexec.bat environment variable PATH is getting
> so long that on processing it, the system reports that
> it's out of environment space.  Has anyone a way around
> this, please?

Assuming Win95/98, add to CONFIG.SYS:

shell = c:\command.com /E:2048 /P

2048 is the amount of environment space you want. 2048 bytes should
be plenty but not too excessive, I think. /P is essential.


Hamish
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