bill@westpt.usma.edu (Bill Gunshannon) (09/08/87)
I need some help getting uupc to run on my PC. I know it was posted
once before but not being one who works extensively with MSDOS I failed
to keep a copy around.
How do you increase the size of the environment in MSDOS 3.1??
I believe there are a set of patches that can be applied to enlarge it
but I don't know what they are. Any help would be appreciated, and maybe
this information should be included with the uupc distribution.
Thanks in advance.
bill gunshannon
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You can increase the environment size in dos 3.x by specifiying the start-up shell in your CONFIG.SYS file. Normally, you'd want COMMAND.COM to be the shell. I've seen a lot of errors in owner's manuals regading the options for the SHELL= parameter. Many manuals say that enviornment size is specified in bytes; this is only true for DOS 3.2 and 3.3. 3.0 and 3.1 measure the environment size in 16 byte paragraphs. Under 3.0 and 3.1, divide your desired environment size by 16 to get the number to be used for the parameter. Use the following syntax for the CONFIG.SYS entry: SHELL = C:\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P The /E: specifies the environment size. /P means "permanent", and has to be present. The /P indicates to COMMAND.COM that it is the inital program, and it is OK to mess with the envrionment size; I think it also means that this is the shell that will be reloaded when a program dumps command.com to get extra space. DOS 2.x requires patching to increase environment space. That's a good enough reson for me to suggest dropping 2.x, unless you have an older program you need to run that gorks on 3.x. Bill (wtm ' daemon; he g