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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>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1030109075604 DOT 16256D-100000 AT is>
Subject: Re: Quirk with command.com shell on XP
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:04:17 +1100
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> >                   SHELL = C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /E:2048
> >
> > -                            on Windows 2000 and XP if you are using the
> > command.com shell then
> > -            one method to increase the enviroment size is to change the
> > startup
> > -            cmd line property for C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM to
the
> > -            following:
> > -              C:\WINDOWS\system32\command.com /e:32000
> > -
>
> (Your diff is backwards.)
>
> I don't think the problem is specific to W2K/XP.
>
> 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.

The running out of environmrnt space is not specific to 2K/XP, but the
solution I propose is a specific fix for 2K/XP.


Andrew