Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!broehl From: broehl@watdcsu.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: HELP: How to increase ENV space? Message-ID: <1869@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 10:41:56 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1869 Posted: Wed Nov 13 10:41:56 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 01:13:36 EST References: <215@ur-tut.UUCP> Reply-To: broehl@watdcsu.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 In article <215@ur-tut.UUCP> dewa@ur-tut.UUCP (Rajiv Dewan) writes: >*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** >Someone, please help me increase the >environment space!! I have looked throught the DOS Reference and >DOS Technical Ref. Manuals but have not found an easy way to do it. >Any help appreciated. If you look in the DOS 3.00 manual under the SET command, it says "If you have *not* loaded a program that remains resident... DOS expands the environment string area to hold additional strings." Otherwise it only has the default 127 bytes. There are two approaches: either do a SET in your autoexec *before* any resident utilities (SideKick, keyboard typeahead expanders, ramdisks, etc) are loaded. This SET (or series of SETs) should increase the space to some high limit. You can always get rid of these placeholders variables after you've loaded other stuff above them. The other approach is to patch COMMAND.COM; there was a patch posted to the net a while back (sorry, I don't have it around any more) to do is, but it tends to be highly version-dependent.