From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: getenv() question
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:05:04 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii schrieb:
> 
> Sorry, I still don't follow ;-)

After srarting a DOS session there normally are set some
environment variables like PATH COMMAND etc.
now I want to start an application, that is known to set some
by itself eg. 290 bytes via putenv() or in a batch wrapper.
What I was thinking of, is to determine the free space in the
DOS environment before actually launching the application,
to be able to tell the user he should increase 
the 'shell= ... /E:xxx' setting in his config.sys in case the
free space were less than the needed 290 bytes.

Thanks for spending your time for my problems.

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