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From: D DOT J DOT Fiddes AT hw DOT ac DOT uk (David Fiddes)
Subject: Re: Out of environment space
7 Mar 1998 07:20:57 -0800 :
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To: "Demetrias Silver" <kaliston AT hotmail DOT com>, <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Hi,


>Unfortunately, I saw this same message on the list once, and payed no
>attention to it, now I'm getting the same error, and I don't know what
>to do.


Try putting this line in your config.sys

SHELL=C:\command.com /e:2048 /p

which will allocate 2K of environment space. Of course you have to make sure
that the SHELL line points to where your command.com is! Pretty basic dos
stuff really...If you use NT you don't have this problem....

dave

David Fiddes, CALM Software Production Officer
Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
email D DOT J DOT Fiddes AT hw DOT ac DOT uk - Tel: +44 131-451-3251

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