Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 19:47:04 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Mon, 25 Dec 2000 02:23:28 +1100)
Subject: Re: "Command line too long"
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> From: Kenneth Doyle <cyberpunk AT notmail DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 02:23:28 +1100
> >
> > 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."
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
> > http://www.deja.com/
> 
> 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.

This enlarges the available space for environment variables used by
COMMAND.COM, but doesn't change the space which DJGPP programs use to
store environment variables (which is allocated as the need arises) or
to pass them to child programs (which is 16KB by default, but can be
changed by running STUBEDIT).