Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:08:05 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: RE: NT LFN driver
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> > Here's another problem: after installing the TSR, you cannot modify the
> > environment: it always says "Out of environment space".  I'll confess
> > that I don't know enough about cmd.exe to play with its environment
> > space, but AFAIK, it should generally expand the environment size as
> > needed, no?
> Anybody know anything about setting the environment?  I mean what calls are
> going on in dos and stuff.

Enlarging the environment doesn't involve any system calls.  The shell
just needs to allocate a larger block of memory and copy everything
there.

I think the real reason for this problem is that NT thinks that your
TSR is running, even after it terminates and stays resident.  Look at
the caption bar: it says it all.  I think you need to find a way to
convince Windows that the TSR has exited, and then it will work.