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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Quirk with command.com shell on XP
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:47:29 +1100
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> > > Anyway, what general problems does this setting avoid?
> > It means that you can have multiple comnmand.com pif files and they will
all
> > have the enviroment set to 32000. I forgot that you also need to set the
> > comspec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\command.com.
>
> Yes, I understand what does the solution do, but why is it needed?  If
> the only case where it happens is when a batch file is run which sets
> enviroment variables, I'm not sure this is DJGPP-related enough for us
> to include it in the FAQ.

In the FAQ we allready inform the DJGPP user how to increase the envionment
space for W95/W98, so why not W2K/XP?

There are a few different ways of doing it on W2K/XP and this may not be the
one that we want in the FAQ as it does make it effectivly a global setting.
For most workers and package port maintainers when they move to 2K/XP will
eventually get stuck like I did and I would rather thme not re-install XP
just to find that if it was in the FAQ or somewhere else then could have
saved allot of time.

The bottom line is that I do not wish anyone to go through the process I did
to find and resolve this problem.

Andrew