From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: Quirk with command.com shell on XP
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:34:16 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <2593-Mon13Jan2003213126+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Jan 13, 2003 09:31:27 PM
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> > For any DOS type application, Win NT/2K/XP create a separate process
> > NTVDM which contains the virtual DOS machine - and inside that virtual
> > machine it always has command.com loaded (in the DOS machine).
> 
> If command.com is loaded into every VM running a DJGPP program, we
> still need to tell users how to control the size of the environment
> it can support, right?

You make this change under DOS in config.sys; the change should probably
be done in config.nt if you need a bigger environment.  Nested shells
are always problematic if you need to add to their environment.