jay@iti.itinet (Jay Rohr) (12/18/90)
Does anyone know how to increase the amount of environment space in VPIX, (DOS environment). All my attempts at changing CONFIG.SYS have failed. This is not really surprising, since every version of DOS has done it differently. Any suggestions would be a great help. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Jay J. Rohr Innovative Technologies, Inc.| |(703) 734-3000 7927 Jones Branch Drive| | McLean, Virginia 22170| +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (12/20/90)
In article <1990Dec18.021335.4175@iti.uucp> jay@iti.itinet (Jay Rohr) writes: >Does anyone know how to increase the amount of environment space in VPIX, >(DOS environment). All my attempts at changing CONFIG.SYS have failed. This >is not really surprising, since every version of DOS has done it differently. >Any suggestions would be a great help. It's not really VP/ix per se, it's the presence of those TSR redirect utilities normally loaded in a VP/ix task's AUTOEXEC.BAT initialization. I used to have to wrestle with this under native DOS too. There is a COMMAND.COM switch to allocate environment space (/E:nnn, where nnn is either bytes or paragraphs depending on the version of DOS, thank you very much Microsoft). In your CONFIG.SYS say SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:2048 /P This is what I use with DOS 3.3 which interprets /E in bytes. If that doesn't do the trick, you can CHEAT as follows: *** in autoexec.bat set DUMMY1=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...xxx (100 or so) set DUMMY2=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...xxx set DUMMY3=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...xxx ... as many as will fit in the /E:nnn space you provided Then later on just unset DUMMY1..n for more E-space. -- Psychoanalysis is the mental illness \\\ Tom Neff it purports to cure. -- Karl Kraus \\\ tneff@bfmn0.BFM.COM