emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm) (02/01/89)
In article <1134@khoo.sdl.UUCP>, khoo@sdl.UUCP (Yong Khoo) writes: > Can anyone provide info on expanding environment space for COMMAND.COM. > My copy of setenv.exe that comes with Microsoft C 5.0 does not seem > to work with MSDOS 3.20. Just add the following line to CONFIG.SYS (make it the first line) SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P You can replace occurrences of C:\ with the correct path for COMMAND.COM (the first occurrence tells MS-DOS where to find COMMAND.COM the first time, the second tells it where to find COMMAND.COM when it needs to reload). The /E tells MS-DOS how many bytes to use for the environment (in bytes, to a maximum of 32,767, default is 128 bytes). The /P tells MS-DOS that this is the primary processor for the EXIT command. You also need this so that AUTOEXEC.BAT will execute. Eric M. Boehm EMB978@ALBNY1VX.BITNET EMB978@LEAH.ALBANY.EDU
wei@hpctdls.HP.COM (Bill Ives) (02/02/89)
Since setenv doesn't work my next best suggestion is use
the shell command in your config.sys file. I'm not sure if this
works in 3.2 but it does in 3.3 -- try it. The syntax is:
shell=c:command.com /E:1024
where 1024 is the number of bytes set aside for environment
space.
Hope this helped.
Bill Ives
HP CTD
#include <standard-disclaimer>toddg@hpldoma.HP.COM (Todd Goin) (02/02/89)
>> >> shell=c:command.com /E:1024 >> Bill Ives >> HP CTD >> >> #include <standard-disclaimer> Bill, If you don't add a /P to the end of the line above, DOS isn't supposed to run your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. And also, if for some reason, the current directory is NOT \, DOS won't find your command.com. I don't know of a way (at this point in the bootup) that the directory could be anything BUT \, but c:\command is safer. Todd Goin HP-EDD