From: Kenneth Doyle <cyberpunk AT notmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "Command line too long"
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 02:23:28 +1100
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dcasale AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

[snip]

>
> I don't quite understand why this is a problem, unless RHIDE was
> attempting to set an environment variable and failing because of lack
> of room.
>
> Anyway, problem solved.  In case anyone has a problem like this again,
> the first thing they should do is check for excess amounts of
> environment variables.  :-)
>
> Damon Casale, damon AT WRONG DOT redshift DOT com (remove the obvious)
> "What do you mean, the environment's not able to support life?  It
> looks a little crowded to me."
>
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You can increase the space for environment variables by adding a line like
this in config.sys:
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:<size> /P

where <size> is the size of the environment space.