From: D.J.Fiddes@hw.ac.uk (David Fiddes) Subject: Re: Out of environment space 7 Mar 1998 07:20:57 -0800 Message-ID: <00d301bd4837$5f3630b0$4216c389.cygnus.gnu-win32@sandray.ma.hw.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Demetrias Silver" , Hi, >Unfortunately, I saw this same message on the list once, and payed no >attention to it, now I'm getting the same error, and I don't know what >to do. Try putting this line in your config.sys SHELL=C:\command.com /e:2048 /p which will allocate 2K of environment space. Of course you have to make sure that the SHELL line points to where your command.com is! Pretty basic dos stuff really...If you use NT you don't have this problem.... dave David Fiddes, CALM Software Production Officer Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh email D.J.Fiddes@hw.ac.uk - Tel: +44 131-451-3251 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".