From: nebo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Environment Space Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 23:58:49 -0700 Organization: neboland Lines: 27 Message-ID: <35555029.6481@linetap.com> References: <3552F56B DOT 5868 AT linetap DOT com> <01bd7a75$c1c4bba0$2cc809c0 AT chessa> NNTP-Posting-Host: lan-hager-20.cancom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Alberto Chessa wrote: > > nebo wrote in article <3552F56B DOT 5868 AT linetap DOT com>... > > Does anyone know how to increase the environment space for DOS [...] > > Try DOS Command: help shell - It will show You how to increase the env > space, that is > simlpe add the following line to your config.sys file: > SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:xxxxx > where xxxx is the required env size in bytes (default value: 256) thanks... I feel real stupid now, I didn't even look for the obvious answer... after all who would have thought Microsoft would have enough sense to make something easy. -- It must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case, God has written all the books. Samuel Butler Nb nebo AT LTS MajorNet nebo AT linetap DOT com Internet