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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another twist on DOS environment sizes.
Message-ID: <9386@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 88 19:36:47 GMT
References: <3057@crash.cts.com> <111@otishq.UUCP>
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Indiana University
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guardian@otishq.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes:
>
>3.1: environment set in blocks of 16bytes.  Max is 2k w/possible 1k on
                         ^^^^^^    called "paragraphs"

>3.2: environment size fixed (most versions of MS-Dos - depends on bios).
>Buff size is 16bytes (i.e. /E:10 = 160 bytes).  Sometimes command.com
>gets confused beyond 25 if a tsr is loaded prior to command.com.

For (Zenith's release of) v3.21, the environment size is specified in
bytes, not paragraphs.  Documentation describes this (it didn't in v3.10).

-- 
-bob,mon
"In this position, the skier is flying in a complete stall..."