Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 12:13:45 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: kinscoe AT ccmail DOT crc DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, dridge AT MIT DOT EDU
Subject: anyone seen this one?

If this is the solution and problem:

SET DUMMY1=***************************
SET DUMMY2=***************************
...
as many times until you fill up the environment space you need to reserve.
This is necessary because DOS wont give you all the available environment space
when you shell, only what you USED. Nice of DOS isn't it ;>

then 4DOS will solve it.  4DOS allows you to specify the amount of
environment space that secondary command shells get, separately from
that of the primary shell.  This is moderately useful under
DESQview/X; you can set a small environment, just enough to get
DESQview up and running, for the primary shell, then put all your
extra variables in only the Windows where they're needed.
    --Steve