Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!sphinx!z7m8 From: z7m8@sphinx.uchicago.edu (ari shlomo zymelman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: environment space in MSDOS 2.11 Message-ID: <2814@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 23:55:24 EST Article-I.D.: sphinx.2814 Posted: Tue Dec 1 23:55:24 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 06:13:09 EST References: <2766@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <789@neoucom.UUCP> <360@gvgspd.UUCP> Reply-To: z7m8@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (ari shlomo zymelman) Organization: U Chicago Computation Center Lines: 13 Keywords: DOS, Environment In article <360@gvgspd.UUCP> mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti) writes: > some response to a previous posting. . . > >I have found, however, that if one patches the byte at address DF3H of >version 2.11's command.com one can expand the environment space. (Note that >this is the address indicated by symdeb (or debug), I can never remember >whether this is actually address CF3H or EF3H! :-) For example, in my system, >I replaced the 0AH found at this address to 20H. I find that the useful >environment is larger, but with a couple of quirks. . . . I followed this advise and it fixed my problems. -- Ari