Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!jvc From: jvc@mirror.TMC.COM (Jim Champeaux) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Another twist on DOS environment sizes. Message-ID: <14488@mirror.TMC.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 16:58:11 GMT References: <629@fxgrp.UUCP> <4598@dasys1.UUCP> <835@acornrc.UUCP> Reply-To: jvc@prism.TMC.COM (Jim Champeaux) Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass. Lines: 17 In article <835@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes: >This is a patch to increase the default environment size for the >version of COMMAND.COM which comes with MSDOS 3.30. > > [deleted instructions on how to patch] I must be missing something. Why patch command.com when you can use the config.sys file to specify an environment size larger than the default (versions 3.xx and up, maybe not 3.0)? I would understand it if secondary shells always used the default size, but they don't. The environment of the secondary shell is always at least as large as the shell it was started from. The environment of the secondary shell can even be made larger than its parent's environment (by using the /e switch). Puzzled, jvc@mirror.tmc.com