Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!iuvax!bobmon 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 Lines: 15 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..."