Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:27:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Velman <velman AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Some things don't run under bash--
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On 25 Jun 1997, John Velman wrote:

> bash$ latex2e process
> Out of environment space
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Doesn't this say enough?  If LaTeX complains about this, it means it 
cannot set some of its environment variables right.  I woudln't expect it 
to work correctly after that.  Would you?

> When I do the same command from a plain dos box under windows I still get the 
> 'out of environment space message,' but in spite of that everything works 
> fine.  In particular, it has no trouble finding latex209.def.

You need to investigate why are you out of environ space and correct the 
reason, then you can test whether Bash gets you into trouble.