Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:18:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Andrew Cottrell <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Quirk with command.com shell on XP
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Andrew Cottrell wrote:

> This may seem okay, but when I do this I run out of enviroment space in teh
> resulting cmd.com shell.
> 
> If I set comspec=.....\command.com then I don't run out of environment
> space.

It figures.  I believe you will see similar problems with Windows 9X 
family's command.com.

The solution is to run commands via "command.com /e:2000 /c foo", where 
`foo' is the command or batch file you want to run.

> 2) Try to execute the makeall.bat using the following command:-
>     redir -o mkall_out.txt -eo makeall.bat

Try "redir -o mkall_out.txt -eo command.com /e:2000 /c makeall.bat" 
instead.