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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Environment Space
Message-ID: <11470004@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 13:05:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 24 13:05:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 18:28:44 EDT
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Re: Environment space in COMMAND.COM

In your CONFIG.SYS file, insert a line like:

    shell=command.com c: /e:nn /p

The "c:" part tells the resident part of COMMAND.COM where to find the
transient part.

The "/e:nn" part controls how big an environment space is desired.  The "nn"
is a number from 10 to 62 (defaulting to 10) indicating how many 16-byte
chunks of memory are to be reserved for the environment space.

The "/p" tells that this copy of COMMAND.COM is to be permanent; also 
causes AUTOEXEC.BAT to be executed.

This works for DOS 2.x and DOS 3.1

For DOS 3.2 (and probably 3.3), the value "nn" must be in bytes (max 32000)


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