Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/02/16:28:04
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> >Yes, but doesn't it only get a copy of the environment in use?
> >That's why you should place the SET foo=bar commands in your
> >autoexec.bat _after_ the TSR's.
> Does it? I suppose that makes sense; I don't really know. :)
Yes, it does. Try shelling out of a program, then add a long environment
variable: you will get "Out of environment space".
> Thinking some
> more, I guess you're right. COMMAND.COM does still eat an amount of
> conventional memory equal to what you specify, of course.
COMMAND.COM which comes with Windows 95 is somewhat smarter about this.
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