From: mauch AT uni-duisburg DOT de (Michael Mauch)
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Subject: Re: Some things don't run under bash--(Resolution)
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 13:48:02 +0200
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On 1 Jul 1997 20:52:20 GMT, velman AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu (John Velman)
wrote:

> Thus, even if you set /E:2048 in your config.sys, and you use only - say - 256 
> bytes of environment, then when you invoke a new command.com with no E switch 
> it gets only 256 bytes of environment.

Yes, and to make it worse, you can't set
"COMSPEC=c:\command.com /e:2048" because most programs won't like it.

I used to patch my command.com to set a larger default environment size
(hmm, wondering why I didn't do it with Win95 - did they eventually fix
it?).

> So, when running programs that need a lot of envirnment, use a new command.com 
> with an appropriately large E:/nnnn. 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to get a windows PIF  to start bash 
> directly with a large environment space.
> 
> By the way, I'm running windows 3.11, dos 6.22.

You can put a line with "CommandEnvSize=2048" in the [NonWindowsApp]
section of system.ini, I think that should do the trick.

Regards...
		Michael
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